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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I'm scared off of Manny now. He plays 3B he is a big time difference maker. SS he is okay. He is going to insist being the SS. He is extremely talented but he does take plays off. That fire isn't the same as Harper. I'm afraid that a 10 contract will hamstring us in 5 years. At least with Harper we can get 7 years out of him before the decline.
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Which was my main point when we had the Manny v. Harper discussion a month ago. That and the LH bat.
To me it's not even a close question. I'd take Harper in a landslide over Machado and I
like Machado. I put him on my list of a dozen or so guys that I'd pay to watch play back when he was a 3b. He's a genuinely exciting young talent...when he wants to be.
I love watching him play for other teams because when he jakes a play, that's not a scoreboard I particularly care about. But on the team I root for it's just a night and day difference between him and Harper.
But hey - if people want to keep running the 'clown question, bro' clip from when he was a teenager over a half a decade ago, I guess that's their prerogative. But they're missing a damn fun player.