BALTIMORE —
The last time Manny Machado was at Camden Yards, he cried.
The place was empty, and it would no longer be the only baseball home he had known.
“I already knew it was coming,” Machado recalled Sunday in Pittsburgh. “But once it happened, you know it’s reality. Now you’re gone. You’re going somewhere else. It’s tough. At that point, I had been there my entire life, and now I get traded somewhere I don’t know. Have to meet new people. I’m leaving friends. It was tough.”
When speaking publicly, at least when it’s not to disagree with Bill Welke, Machado doesn’t get too worked up.