Manny Machado didn’t say much when baseball suspended him one game for arguing balls and strikes in June. The umpires came after him on social media, likening throwing a bat to workplace violence and Machado still didn’t say a whole lot. He lost his appeal, served his one-game ban and never addressed it again.
Machado, however, had a whole lot to say Tuesday night about MLB Network analysts Eric Byrnes and Dan Plesac coming to the defense of Jake Marisnick, who recently was banned two games for hospitalizing the Angels’ Jonathan Lucroy with a home plate collision.