With the Jim Duquette bombshell report outlining the New York Yankees seven or eight-year Manny Machado deal hitting the baseball world on Saturday comes serious fallout.
How does Machado’s camp respond? What do the Yankees do about it? How do the other teams in the running feel about the bomb?
The one thing for certain is that we now know how owner Hal Steinbrenner feels about the 26-year-old free-agent slugger, via Brendan Kuty of NJ.com.
As a result of the team’s famous dinner meeting with Machado earlier in the offseason, Steinbrenner revealed his true feelings.