When word came out this weekend that the San Diego Padres and Manny Machado had reached an agreement on an 11-year, $350 million extension to avoid opt-out drama, replace his existing deal and keep the superstar third baseman in San Diego for the rest of his career, the reaction felt a little like the villain’s tagline in every Scooby-Doo episode.
How do the Padres keep doing this?
It has been a baseball industry refrain for a while now, and every repetition makes the rest of the industry look like the befuddled foils, whining predictably about those meddling kids.