if they want to keep contact with the Lone Star State rival Houston Astros in the AL West.

3B Manny Machado: St. Louis Cardinals

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Trade chatter is heating up around Baltimore Orioles infielder Manny Machado, one of the brightest stars in the game.

Baltimore is fielding offers for its franchise player and is "more inclined to move him," per Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

The 25-year-old two-time Gold Glove winner and two-time top-five AL MVP finisher is entering his final season before free agency, but the O's will command a rich return package nonetheless.

That means the team that acquired him would need to be in clear win-now mode. Cue the St. Louis Cardinals, name-dropped by Nightengale as a serious suitor.

The Cards, along with San Francisco, made a pushA day after endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president, Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Tuesday rejected the notion that she and other Democrats are trying to crush Sen. Bernie Sanders.

"You want a candidate that not just builds a coalition of fired-up Democrats, which we've got, but also brings in independents, moderate Republicans. That's how we won back the House of Representatives, and that's what Joe Biden can do," Klobuchar said in an interview with Savannah Guthrie on "TODAY" as voters headed to the polls on Super Tuesday, when 14 states and American Samoa were holding primary contests.

Klobuchar, D-Minn., exited the Democratic primary race Monday after she came in in sixth place in the South Carolina primary Saturday. A few hours after her announcement, she joined Biden, who