A lot has been said about how teams were unusually quiet in the pursuit of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. I wasn’t too surprised however, Harper had been maddeningly inconsistent throughout his career and Machado was a very good but not great player, that was expecting to be paid as if he was the former. We’re now at the All-Star
Read morePhotos courtesy of Google images. What’s going on? Why are two of the best young players in the game still free agents? Are they refusing to take less than some astronomical number? Are they not receiving any even remotely acceptable offers? It seems that it’s a combination of the two and it seems to be heavily influenced by the luxury
Read moreThe season is over and the Boston Red Sox are World Champions, eliminating New York along the way. The Bronx Bombers will want to have an offseason that will keep this from happening again in 2019. With that in mind, I decided to write my suggested blueprint for it. The number one concern for the team should be starting pitching.
Read moreBryce Harper and Manny Machado entered this season with the general expectations being that they would be the recipients of record-setting contracts after the season, that hasn’t changed. What has changed however, is that Harper has been having a “down season of sorts” and Machado has the advantage of no longer being tied to draft pick compensation due to being
Read moreSome big trades went down recently… First, Manny Machado was traded by Baltimore to the Los Angeles Dodgers, then Brad Hand was traded by San Diego to Cleveland, and then even more trades went down… Baltimore waited too long to move Machado, they should’ve traded him last Summer, when it was already clear that they weren’t contenders and that they
Read morePhoto courtesy of MLB.com. The Baltimore Orioles are bad this year, as in they’re horrible. Their best player is a free agent at the end of the season and is unlikely to sign an extension. It’s unknown if they will trade him or not, their asking price was unrealistic during the offseason. Will that change now? What teams could be
Read moreTeams are already trying to get under the luxury tax threshold for next offseason. Why? Bryce Harper and Manny Machado are going to be free agents (barring unexpected extensions). Harper is the closest comparable player to Mike Trout (the consensus best player in the game). Harper was actually rated ahead of Trout as a prospect and was better than him
Read moreThe Baltimore Orioles are trying to trade 3B Manny Machado for two controllable starting pitchers. Great. Just one problem… Machado is a free agent after next season and they don’t want to give an acquiring team a 72 hour window to work out an extension. It’s not news that the Baltimore Orioles are one of the worst run franchises in
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