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Originally Posted by jd1020
Gonna take a bigger deal than that to get what will be the 2nd most coveted FA behind Harper and a Boras client.
Strasburg is the only name that comes to mind that signed before hitting FA and his agent was Boras. And for a guy that wasn't giving you 150 innings and always injured for the playoffs getting $200M was a no brainer deal.
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Machado isn't a Boras client; he's with Lozano.
Lozano's guys will extend and there are rumors that Machado will consider it as well.
And as you may recall, Lozano was Pujols agent and has had a solid relationship for a long time with the Cardinals. If anything blew the Cards out of the water it would be Matheny.
But there has to be some optimism that as part of Machado's move back to SS, he'd get to spend a lot of time with Jose Oquendo and perhaps we could sell him on the squad.
This one actually makes a lot of sense and isn't completely farfetched. And the Cardinals likely still have the bullets to get this done if they really wanted to. It's just a question of how badly they want to push their chips in and how confident they are they can stay in the game.