PT TOMORROW: AL East—Will Machado be a 2H monster?

Baltimore Orioles

Want to take a shot at a player you may still be able to buy relatively low on, who might be able to carry you in the second half? Manny Machado (3B, BAL) has just completed his third straight week of triple-digit BPV, though one of those weeks consisted of only 9 AB, due to his outburst of immaturity earlier in the season.

While the writers of the Baseball Forecaster expressed skepticism that Machado would “arrive” as a star in 2014, which may still be justified, it would make some sense for Machado to be a man on a mission who could raise his performance to a new level as the knee injury that ended his 2013 season — not to mention his bat-throwing incident — get further in the rearview mirror and Machado and his...

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