Los Angeles Dodgers: Six biggest storylines entering the offseason

2. The Manny Machado bidding war

Manny Machado was never viewed as a long-term solution for the Los Angeles Dodgers. With Corey Seager out for the season, a deep farm system and a front office that did not want to throw the year away, the team went out and brought in Machado on a half-season rental.

While the trade package had some big names, such as Yusniel Diaz, this was a great package for the Dodgers and truly was an affordable price considering the state of the farm system and current roster. It is almost like both sides knew that wherever Machado went, he would not re-sign.

After putting up some decent numbers and providing elite hitting at times, many fans flocked onto the Machado bandwagon and are now asking for him to be re-signed. I have heard the proposition of moving Seager or Justin Turner to second and keeping Machado at short. I have also heard some fans say that Machado is superior to Seager and Seager should be dealt.

That simply is not true.

Is there a world in which Machado re-signs with LA and they make it work? Absolutely. However, it just doesn’t seem to be a fit and personally, I do not want to see Machado in Dodger blue any longer.

Machado is a great, superstar player and I cannot knock what he has accomplished in his career at only 26. However, I have never seen a player that says he cares so much about winning seemingly not care when it actually comes to the play on the field.

Machado did not impress me this postseason. I’ll take a Cody Bellinger, who beats out routine groundballs, over Machado, who gets singles on should-be doubles off the wall.

New York, Philadelphia, whoever wants to pay him: go ahead.