The newcomer found the silence in the locker room curious, with the players listening to music doing so with headphones, as was requested by their manager.
The new Manny’s introduction to the Dodgers was considerably more low-key. Two days after he was acquired from the Baltimore Orioles, Manny Machado didn’t show up to Miller Park cracking jokes about wanting to explore possible roles in Spanish-language soap operas or making promises about cutting his hair that he had no intention of honoring, as Ramirez once did.
“I’m here to play baseball,” Machado said in his introductory news conference Wednesday.