We’ve been talking an awful lot this off-season about free agents like Bryce Harper and Manny Machado receiving amounts of money we’ll never see, for contracts lasting a longer time than is easy to comprehend. But one team in the running for both superstars’ services, the White Sox, is pursuing Machado in a way that even we filthy peons can understand: by signing his best pals first.
If #WhiteSox complete deal for Jon Jay, it might be another step in their recruitment of Manny Machado. Jay, Machado and Machado’s brother-in-law Yonder Alonso train together in Miami in the off-season.