3 reasons why the Padres should pass on Manny Machado

By Tre LyDay | Jan 25, 2019

ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 08: Manny Machado #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a three run homerun during the seventh inning of Game Four of the National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field on October 8, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

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BOSTON, MA – OCTOBER 24: Manny Machado #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws out J.D. Martinez (not pictured) #28 of the Boston Red Sox during the fourth inning in Game Two of the 2018 World Series at Fenway Park on October 24, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) /

3. They don’t need any distractions

A common theme that you’ll find people talk about with young teams is that they want to put a solid foundation in place. Both in the clubhouse and on the field. That’s going to start with the young guys as they start to build their core philosophy in the near future.

One thing they don’t need is any kind of meaningless distractions, and if you bring in Machado you bring the outside world with him.

There are multiple scenarios to pull from. You can go back to when he cleated Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia sliding into second base. The Red Sox never let that go, and it carried throughout the entire season.

You can go back to last season’s NLCS when he was playing with the Los Angeles Dodgers and he clipped Jesus Aguilar at first base, seemingly on purpose. He denies it was on purpose, but it sure didn’t look like an accident.

Even without those incidents you still have the rumblings around the league that he doesn’t play hard. In his defense, he’s played at least 157 games each of the past four seasons and hasn’t had a DL stint since 2014.

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Regardless, these are things that you just don’t want with a team full of young guys trying to learn the ropes.

Even with these reasons to not sign him he’s still one of the best players in the league and if the Padres did sign him it wouldn’t be the wrong decision.

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