BALTIMORE – Manny Machado first met Joe Jordan when he was a teenage phenom. Machado was one of the country’s premier amateur players and Jordan was the scouting director for a team with one of the top picks in the MLB Draft.
“He was the guy that was on me for a while,” Machado said Tuesday’s afternoon before his Orioles hosted the Phillies.
Jordan, now the Phillies farm director, was responsible for drafting Machado with Baltimore’s third-overall pick in 2010. And he could play a role this winter when the Phillies – and their plethora of connections to Baltimore – make a run at Machado in free agency.