Well glad to see one person making sense.
The reality is neither you , I and anyone else here knows anything about being a young famous athlete who hires an agent to negotiate the most important monetary decision of his life. You should not put stock in anything anyone says. You should not grovel asking people for info that cannot possibly help you in any way.
There's absolutely no way to separate the wheat from the chaff. There are only ways to make you feel better or worse. Then you are pawns of every fake, prankster fraud and person that might have sources but the message gets twisted and misinterpreted as it gets passed around or even before it gets passed around.
Will all this drivel make Machado or Harper sign where ever he signs any faster ? You're all masochists ! I say that in the nicest way possible. Carry on torturing yourselves.