Manny Machado, one of the best free agents available on the market, has reached an agreement with the San Diego Padres. The league sources told Jeff Passan of ESPN on Tuesday.
Machado, a four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove award winner on the third base, made $ 16 million between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles last season.
The 26-year-old slugger placed a career height of .905 OPS in 2018. .297 / .367 / .538 cut line, 37 home runs, 107 RBI's and 14 stolen bases. In 66 regular season games with the Dodgers, Machado hit .273 with 13 homers and 42 RBIs.
Machado spent most of the past season at short-haul, his preferred post and the third worst defending Loop Save (minus 13) among 22 players with enough innings to qualify for that spot. The 26-year-old played a better short stop when he joined the Dodgers. He gave up five minor leaguers from the Orioles on July 18, but his 15-week stint in LA was boisterous.
The former no. 3 overall choices ceaselessly criticized to continually solve the first baseline and when the flames flared when he told Fox Sports during the off-season that he was not a cup of tea.
we traded for him, "dodgers Andrew Friedman said at the general management meetings on November 6." It's not as if it was a secret … I think there are other times when guys do it and they really care. And with caution I mean the effort they put into their work, the kind of teammate they are, and Manny looks at all the boxes. "
Machado had several great moments with the Dodgers, several of them while the team in September a sixth Continuing title title fights and a few more during a victory in the NL Championship series, but hit just 182 in the World Series, exercising the final when the Boston Red Sox won the championship.
In 2014 Machado was limited to 82 games, but in each of the last four played at least 156 games. seasons. He hit at least 30 home runs and 30 doubles in each of the four seasons. He makes him one of only two players, along with Colorado's Nolan Arenado, to reach both points each year.
He has set 29 FanGraphs winning top replacement since his first full season in the majors in 2013, joining Joey Votto for sixth under-ranking players ever since. Only Mike Forel, Josh Donaldson, Paul Goldschmidt, Mookie Betts and Jose Altuve have a higher war in that six-year stretch.
