The Manny Machado Tour of 2018 seems to have ended with the free-agent superstar's visit to Philadelphia on Thursday. Tour might be laying it on a bit thick. It was only three cities, with Chicago and New York coming before Philly. The Rolling Stones still make more stops than that and they ran out of surplus value in the late 1970s.
Where will Manny land? The honest answer here is simply that I don't know. I could guess, especially in this instance, when there is apparently a one-in-three shot at being right. But the tea leaves in the Machado pursuit have been tough to read and it doesn't help that for each of the three teams involved, I think Bryce Harper would be the smarter mega-splurge.