If the White Sox truly are the favorite to land Manny Machado, now we know what kind of contract they've offered him to put themselves in that position.
Hours after USA Today's Bob Nightengale predicted that Machado would end up playing on the South Side, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported that the White Sox have made Machado an eight-year contract offer.
That differs, though only slightly, from reports earlier this month of the White Sox making a six- or seven-year offer to Machado. And as for what the dollar amount on such a deal might be, there's no new information from Passan supplanting Nightengale's earlier report of around $200 million.