{"id":2884,"date":"2011-02-09T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2011-02-09T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:11:24","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-23-manny-machado-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2884","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #23 &#8211; Manny Machado (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mannymachado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2885\" title=\"mannymachado\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mannymachado-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mannymachado-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mannymachado.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#23 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker&#038;id=machad001man\">Manuel  Machado<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Baltimore Orioles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 7-6-92<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Manny Machado is the top shortstop in the Minors today.\u00a0 Hailing from Miami, Machaco demonstrates excellent hands and feet in the field.\u00a0 He is very fluid at the plate with excellent bat speed and control.\u00a0 He has plenty of arm to stay at short, and his in-game hack hints at plus power in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For an 18-year-old, Machado has phenomenal baseball instincts and should adjust quickly to the professional game.\u00a0 While he was on the field for only nine professional games in 2010, he was able to slash .345\/.406\/.448 in 36 AB\u2019s.\u00a0 Machado is the top prospect in the Orioles\u2019 organization, but his talent has no equal amongst Minor League shortstops, and his $5.25 million bonus suggests the O\u2019s have no shortage of confidence in Machado\u2019s promise.<\/p>\n<p>As a former member of the Florida Legends club, Machado was brought up in one of the finest organizations in the nation and is very prepared for his first full season of professional baseball.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jbmnJKe5fZQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jbmnJKe5fZQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#23 Manuel Machado \u2013 Baltimore Orioles SS DOB: 7-6-92 ETA: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,6,9,11,13,10,14,1616,775],"tags":[624,667,1701,1799,1801,1800,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}