Former Miami Marlins president David Samson told me this week on the Talking Friars podcast that the San Diego Padres giving Manny Machado a ten-year, $300 million contract was a “straight overpay”.
Samson also said that Machado came to San Diego only because of the money and that he didn’t actually do research on San Diego’s farm system. “There was no other team offering Machado. The reason he signed with San Diego as you recall, he took the stage and Manny said, ‘I chose the Padres because I studied their farm system and I liked their farm system’.