Baseball lives crisscrossed before coming together again in Padres-Mets playoff opener
Buck Showalter thinks the mission involved the short-season Aberdeen IronBirds. He sent former Orioles star and coach Brady Anderson on a stealthy operation to see teenager Manny Machado do a few laps with the under-the-radar farm club.
Friday at Citi Field. “We were kind of covertly working him out at third base at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.Showalter is the connective tissue to two of the most crucial people in the dugout of, who sit on the cusp of their first 162-game playoff appearance in 16 years. He was the man tasked with molding wet and fascinating clay with Machado, who was so gifted that he became an All-Star and Gold Glove winner in his first full season.
Machado last played for Showalter in 2018, before being traded to the Dodgers to finish off that season.
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