Every Oakland fan’s favorite infielder, Manny Machado, hasn’t changed one bit and is exactly the same person and player that we saw back in 2014. He most recently spent the 2018 National League Championship Series between (his new team) the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers using dirty tactics, throwing temper tantrums, and using the strategy of outright denial to explain his actions much like he did against the A’s back in 2014.
His behavior in this year’s NLCS elicited similar reactions from the Milwaukee Brewer’s fans, other players, baseball writers and analysts, and Major League Baseball, as it did four years ago, and those reactions are far from positive.