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The Phillies have better odds to land Bryce Harper than Manny Machado

The Machado/Harper debate is getting older than Jamie Moyer at this point. As both agents play a game of chicken and Machado makes his free agent tour, we Phillies fans are stuck waiting and anticipating and worrying and debating.

Very little substantial news has surfaced on the landing place of Manny Machado or Bryce Harper, which leaves everyone in the baseball world free to ponder, pontificate, and rumify all they want. Idle hands are the devil's workshop, and now the devil has Twitter.

These situations almost always come down exclusively to money. If either player takes anything less than the best offer, it will be the biggest shock of the offseason.