By now we all know the sad but true situation surrounding Manny Machado, Adam Jones, Zach Britton, and Brad Brach. These four core players are pending free agents and will almost certainly be traded before the July 31 trading deadline. Or at least that’s the competent move to be made by a team that’s over twenty games out of first place before June.
But whoever is making the decisions in the Warehouse needs to decide soon how drastic this selling spree should be. The Baltimore Sun’s Eduardo Encina raised an interesting point about thinking beyond those big four pending free agents.