Padres $350 million slugger called 'untradeable' despite zero reason to trade him
This Padres slugger isn't tradeable, despite zero reason to move him.
Padres $350 million slugger called 'untradeable' despite zero reason to trade him originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The San Diego Padres are sitting in first place in the NL West coming out of Mother's Day weekend.
They're in great shape to go on a postseason run. In such a situation, A. J.
Preller finding a few trades by the deadline to bolster the roster is well within expectation. But, looking into the future of the franchise, there might be some internal players traded away by Preller in the coming years. Zachary Rotman of Fansided.
com identified one Padres player, $350 million slugger Manny Machado, as someone who is "untradeable. " "Even if Machado were performing at his typical star level, he's a 33-year-old under contract for seven more years after this one at nearly $40 million annually. - a price virtually no other team would be willing to meet," Rotman writes.