Padres reportedly offering $250M or more to Machado, Harper
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The Padres are thought to have offered Manny Machado a contract in the neighborhood of eight years and $250 million, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports (Twitter link), while San Diego has reportedly issued an even larger offer to Bryce Harper. The exact totaPadres reportedly offering $250M or more to Machado, Harper
The Padres are thought to have offered Manny Machado a contract in the neighborhood of eight years and $250 million, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports (Twitter link), while San Diego has reportedly issued an even larger offer to Bryce Harper. The exact total of the Machado offer is, as Heyman noted, an estimate, as that deal could include deferred money or some adjustment based on California’s higher taxation rates. Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune (also via Twitter) believes the Padres’ offer to Machado is beyond the $250 million mark, although Acee isn’t certain about the number of years involved in the contract. While still short of the potential record-setting numbers thrown around for both Harper and Machado before the start of free agency, and even seemingly still shy of the $300 million threshold, it’s worth noting that only three contracts in baseball history (Giancarlo Stanton’s record $325 million deal with the Marlins, and Alex Rodriguez’s deals with the Rangers and Yankees) have topped th Read more