PHILADELPHIA -- Near the end of his four-day, three-city free agency tour that wrapped up Thursday afternoon, Manny Machado did his share of signing.
No, he didn't scratch his signature into a major-league contract that might give him one of the most lucrative multi-year deals in baseball history. Someday soon, however, that ought to come.
Instead, he was signing autographs, giving a dozen or so Philadelphia Phillies fans who stood several hours in a cold rain something to remember him by -- even if he doesn't end up inking a deal with their team.
The impromptu autograph session outside the Phillies' administrative offices was an unintended sendoff, and the culmination point of a day at Citizens Bank Park that lasted four hours and 16 minutes.