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Putjep Yellow Sox' owner and team president Nhedi Rastik publicly rejects any suggestion his club will join the VBL lawsuit. He claims the nationwide league is in the best interests of baseball in the country. The feeling is thought to be mutual among most Peninsula League clubs, whom are significantly smaller than their Valley League peers and rely on the big clubs. While there have been complaints of contracts not be respected, they have yet to make the forceful public comments that some VBL owners have.

Rastik is the eldest son of the former Sox owner and star player Mikel Rastik. When Mikel passed away in 2006, he left control of the club to then Team President Nhedi Rastik. While Nhedi attempted to follow his father's footsteps in baseball, he eventually made his name with his import/export business and now regional manufacturing conglomerate Rastik, Inc. When tapped by his father to join the team's front office in 1998, he has re-embraced his first love of baseball. The Yellow Sox had become a powerful club in the Coastal League under his leadership and his brother Pal. Pal has a noted business history himself - serving as Rastik, Inc.'s V.P. after retiring from a successful baseball career abroad. He now is V.P. of the Yellow Sox and a noted philanthropist.