The Baltimore Orioles are not yet willing to consider trading Manny Machado, who will be a free agent after the season.

"We're still evaluating our club for 2018," Dan Duquette said. "Basically, we still need to figure out where we're going to be, so I think we need a little bit more time to do that."

The Orioles are 8-20 and have the second-worst record in the American League.

Machado, 25, is off to the best start of his career.

"I think it's important to find out where our ballclub is going this year," Duquette said. "I think the benchmark is Memorial Day. I think that's the first benchmark, about 60 days [into the season], to see how your ballclub is doing and see where you might want to go."

For his part, Machado says he'd like to remain with the Orioles all season.

"Everybody in here, we've sat down and we've talked. Everybody wants to win. We know we are way better than what's been happening and how we played the last month," he said. "There's no excuses or anything, we've been playing bad. Injuries have been affecting us at the same time. One day we hit well, one day we don't, one day we pitch well, one day we don't. It’s just been off. I think everyone wants to keep playing together, we've been together for the last seven years, so we want to at least make one more push for it and do everything together that we can to get back to the playoffs with the team that we have. I'm confident in the team we have here, that we can do that.

"I would like to stay here the whole year. This is a team we've been together the last seven years and playing together. I want to win with this team. Come July, come August, come tomorrow, I can't control that destiny. I just got to go out there and do whatever I can today. … Obviously, it's out of my control. The offense has to get better. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, we clean it up and start winning games.. I'm positive that when we get the 25 guys in here that are healthy and back in the lineup, we are going to surprise a lot of people. We had a bad April, but it's time to turn it around and hopefully make a push for this year."