a 70th ranked player would usually not get this sort of coverage

The rationale for a trade is not his current slash line. It’s that the O’s may lose him for nothing after 2018, but trading him now could revamp their entire pathetic farm system.

After a lengthy replay review, however, umpires decided not to overturn the initial call—that Machado’s slide did not violate the rule, meaning that he was out at second but batter Mark Trumbo was safe at first.

This a quintessential Gawker article: state a “hot take”, then substitute snark for substantive arguments. Rinse and repeat.

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