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The pros and cons of suitors for Bryce Harper, Manny Machado

OK, one more time, let's reset everything and check in with our two favorite free agents. It has been 114 days and counting since Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado for the final out of the World Series. Consider that in the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, 13 major new laws were passed, including the Emergency Banking Act, the creation of the Federal Emergency Relief, the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the creation of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Yet, here we sit, with Machado and Bryce Harper still unsigned (to say nothing of Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel; rumors on those two are dryer than the Sahara in the middle of a heat wave).