While multiple reports have said the Orioles are newly motivated to move star shortstop Manny Machado sooner rather than later in hopes that a three-month rental will bring back a larger haul than one for two months, no deal appears imminent.
The Orioles’ decision-making hierarchy will not be pushed to make a hasty trade the club’s brass is not comfortable with, and many of the teams engaged with the Orioles are the same ones that exchanged dialogue throughout the offseason and a few that were talking at last year’s trade deadline when the Orioles were shopping closer Zach Britton.