Machado to Padres

[silvor]

10 years
$300 million

https://sports.yahoo.com/manny-macha...173812310.html

[Econteachert205]

Prediction: decent production for first two years followed by steep drop off.

[packs]

Very strange landing spot for him. Tatis Jr. is on the cusp of the major leagues and they play the same position, assuming Machado is still adamant about playing short.

I think he'll see a severe sap in his power numbers and find himself overshadowed in short order by Tatis Jr. and Luis Urias.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

He is going from a hitters park to a pitchers park. I don’t see this as being good. And the aforementioned block of Tatis makes no sense. Reminds me when the Yanks signed McCann even though Sanchez was their #1 prospect.

I’m not sure what Preller is up to but he doesn’t seem to have much of a game plan. When he first started he made a big splash by making a bunch of trades and signing Shields. It didn’t work. Then he traded a bunch of guys away and restocked the farm system - currently one of the best in baseball. That was working. So now last season he signs Hosmer and this season he signs Machado - 2 of the most ridiculous, bloated albatross contracts in a market where the other teams have learned better than to sign contracts like that. There seems to be little direction or consistency in terms of building a team from the Padres in the past few years.

After watching Machado in the post season last year, he is the last person I would want to provide leadership to a group of young, talented ballplayers. His performance in clutch situations fell short and he disgraced himself with his displays of poor sportsmanship. I’m just glad the Padres signed him and not my team.

[clydepepper]

Hey, the Padres have a 'great' history of successful free-agent signings, so let's give it a chance.

Is it possible that the Mets have a west-coast office?

[Peter_Spaeth]

I think with a fresh start, with his talent he'll do just fine. I agree the contract is insane, I bet nobody else was even close to that.

[Cmount76]

Is it possible that the Mets have a west-coast office?[/QUOTE]

I don't know if the Mets have a west coast office, but he isn't 33 and they aren't offering 2 mil per year in perpetuity. My guess is that this really is the Padres.

[the 'stache]

$30 mil a year to a guy with an attitude problem that half-asses it much of the time.

What could possibly go wrong??

[the 'stache]

I'm glad the Brewers never went after Machado. They wouldn't have ponied up anywhere close to $30 M, and to be honest, I think that they were encouraged by what they saw from Orlando Arcia. The kid was a top ten prospect in baseball, and they're not going to give up on him that quickly.

After a decent rookie year, he was awful last year for the first three months of the season. But when he went down to AAA, they tweaked his approach at the plate, and when he came back up, he was a different player. He hit .280 after coming back, and was fantastic in September, hitting .329 in 26 games while OPSing .805. And he was real good in the playoffs, going 11 for 33 with 3 home runs and a .985 OPS.

He's got some pop in his bat (had 15 home runs in about 500 ABs as a 22 year old, and his round trippers were split evenly between home and road), so it's not out of the question for him to knock 20 out a season. And his glove is elite. He's going to win multiple Gold Gloves.

[Peter_Spaeth]

The Harper melodrama needs to end soon. It's absurd at this point.