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Originally Posted by raybec 4
If he's openly said that, the Yankees would be idiots to make that trade considering waiting 1 season nets you the same return for no cost.
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He hasn't.
But the Orioles can approach him and Lozano to discuss an extension and Lozano can tell
them that. If he tells the Yankees that and anything is ever proven, all hell would break lose and Lozano would probably lose his agency license (which would be...y'know...not good for a guy who's getting probably 2-3% of contracts like Pujols and Machados). That's blatant tampering. Unless the Orioles give teams permission to talk to him about that kind of stuff, then mum's the word.
It's all rumor mills right now. The only parties that truly
know that answer should be Machado, Lozano and the Orioles (ideally only Angelos and Duquette at that).
Like I said - if the Orioles know it to be the case and the Yankees only surmise that it could be the case, they'd be well served to simply make a trade and remove all doubt.
Gambling over 10 years with superstar shortstop because you don't want to give up a couple of prospects when your team is the revenue superstar of major league baseball would be pretty asinine.