BALTIMORE -- It is a delicate balance, managing a selling team as the non-waiver Trade Deadline approaches, and all the more so when you have the best trade chip available. So when that chip, Orioles shortstop Manny Machado, didn't return to the field following a rain delay in Sunday's series finale vs. Texas at Camden Yards, the questions almost immediately started.
But Machado, who has been linked to more than a half dozen teams, has not been traded and will end the first half an Oriole. He's expected to suit up for Tuesday's All-Star Game presented by Mastercard still as a member of Baltimore, but there's no telling how long that will hold true afterward.