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(670 the score) The White Sox general manager, Rick Hahn, has always felt confident in the offer that his organization had made to independent field player Manny Machado, but he ultimately failed.
Machado on Tuesday agreed to a $ 300 million 10-year deal with the Padres, ending the White Sox's pursuit.
The White Sox offer has been announced at eight years and guaranteed at $ 250 million, with acquisition options at $ 35 million for 2027 and 2028 – figures that Hahn has described as "generally" accurate in an interview with Laurence Holmes in 670 The Score on Wednesday. However, Hahn denied a report that the White Sox, as an organization, would oppose pullback clauses, which Machado had obtained at the end of his fifth year with the Padres.
"Absolutely not," said Hahn. "There is no organizational philosophy.You make the assessment based on individual concessions in the negotiations."
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Hahn also denied that the White Sox were not able to reach the $ 300 million mark with Machado or any potential free agent, while stressing that the organization would not be limited to a certain threshold in future negotiations.
The White Sox made their offer to Machado at a price they felt was right.
"There is no magic limit to where we would go (with Machado)," Hahn said. "The evaluation has to be based on each player, they are obviously all different, they have different risks, they have different advantages, advantages and possibilities for the club."
"In this agreement, at the end of the day, we were not comfortable – as mentioned (Executive Vice President Kenny Williams) – we would not go reach this level ($ 300 million), but we obviously tried to meet the other concerns of the player to make the offer attractive, but there is no limit: it is to evaluate the individual player, the risk that this player brings and the potential alternatives existing for that money. "
The White Sox met Monday afternoon with the party of the agent Dan Lozano and Machado. The organization has brought together its president, Jerry Reinsdorf and Williams. Their final offer was on the table.
Hahn and the White Sox thought their offer was enough to get Machado to join them in Chicago. The Padres have proved better in Machado's eyes.
"I do not think it would be fair that they say," Hey, you got X. Give us the chance to go to X plus one, "Hahn said." But we had common sense and we had very candid conversations about what he was thinking about and how we were going to try to make him a White Sox. The ultimate contract offer was based on these priorities conversations.
"It's a free agency. These guys work extremely hard to get to a point where they can make a decision based on what they want. It can be a dollar guarantee, it can be positive, it can be my wife has a cousin there who is very close to us and we want to be there. In the end, many moving things led to these decisions. I do not think we refused to do anything, so it torpedoed the whole thing. "
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Hahn spoke to reporters twice on Tuesday, first at the White Sox spring training camp in Glendale, and later at the pre-scheduled availability of the MLB's executive directors. He talked a lot about the situation in Machado and expressed his frustration – which, he admitted, was still there on Wednesday.
"I do not take much consolation trying to make big efforts," Hahn said. "We work in professional sport, it's pretty binary, it's winning (or) losing, we do it or we do not do it, we did not do it. frustration.
"Even though we are disappointed with the failure, it's not the last time we're going to try to do it.This money is going to be spent.When it will be spent, I'm not sure. I'm not sure yet, except that we will spend the same way as we tried to do earlier in the week and that puts us in the best long-term position to win several championships. "
At just over a month from the opening day, it remains to be seen whether the White Sox will aggressively seek out another stand-alone player with the money they still have after the disappearance of Machado.
Could Hahn and his organization rally behind an offer available to other superstar, Bryce Harper?
"There is an open line of communication," Hahn said. "(Agent Scott Boras) and I have a very direct and candid dialogue every time we speak, we are always available for each other."
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