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TAMPA, Fla. — After months of searching, Manny Machado found a new team on Tuesday, agreeing to join the San Diego Padres for 10 years and $300 million. The deal is the first free-agent contract ever to guarantee a player $300 million, and sets up baseball’s other unsigned star free agent, Bryce Harper, to top it soon.
The Padres did not announce the agreement, which will not become official until Machado passes a physical, but the deal was confirmed by a person in baseball with direct knowledge of it.
Machado, 26, spent last season with the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Dodgers, hitting .