This will probably be Manny Machado’s final season in an Orioles uniform. The 25-year-old is due to hit free agency next winter and, publicly, there seems to be either no progress or no interest in Machado signing a long-term extension with Baltimore. And yet, there are murmurs that the team is going to bend over backwards to move their star player away from third base, where he has been so good throughout his career, and play him at his preferred position of shortstop. From the team’s perspective, this makes absolutely no sense.
Bobby Dickerson, the Orioles third base coach, spoke to 105.