Maybe it was all the second-hand smoke or the first-hand losing at the Mandalay Bay casino that prompted the following question to Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels.
More likely, it was a defeated reaction to the lack of substantive transactions (and web clicks) so far at these MLB winter meetings, though in fairness to the Rangers they have actually added two new players to their 40-man roster in two days.
Anyhoo, the question:
“Why aren’t you guys pursuing Manny Machado?”
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