Padres Make Manny Machado Announcement on Thursday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After winning the first two outings of their four-game series against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco, the San Diego Padres failed to sustain their form, as they lost the final two contests.

Machado spoke this offseason about what the Hall of Fame would mean to him, and what the honor of even being considered at this point in his career is like. “We all play for tha

A little more than three years have passed since Miguel Cabrera, an all-fields slugger Machado studied closely, became the 33rd and most recent player to enter the 3,000-hit club. Freeman and Altuve, with perhaps a handful more seasons, could approach elite territory around their 40th birthdays — an age that tends to bring plummeting effectiveness.