As if life this off-season hasn't been bad enough for Red Sox fans—
now there's this. Multiple reports suggest that loopy
Orioles owner Peter Angelos may trade Manny Machado directly to The Bronx Embalmers. The
Birds, of course, are in
serious need of starting pitching, so the names going back to
Charm City are Yankee pitching prospects
Chance Adams and
Justus Sheffield. This new wrinkle comes just
days after Angelos poured cold water on sending Machado to the White Sox—
for fear that they would just flip him to The Evil Ones! The Chicago management then naively stated that such a "flip" to
The Pinstriped Posers would be "unethical". Didn't we just witness the joke trade that
Derek Jeter made to his old team? Anyway, the Red Sox are
also being mentioned in a possible trade for Machado—with at least one semi-established pitcher going back to his old Baltimore roots in the person of lefty
Eduardo Rodriguez. Stay tuned!
