short star Carlos Correa And the Minnesota Twins are in the process of finalizing a six-year, $200 million contract, pending Madi, after weeks of discussion to salvage a deal with the New York Mets, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
The stunning turn caps a whirlwind month for Correa, who agreed to a 13-year, $350 million contract with the San Francisco Giants on Dec. 13. After the Giants raised concerns about Corea’s surgically repaired right leg, he quickly turned to the Mets, who offered him a 12-year, $315 million contract. The Mets pointed to his physicality as well, and efforts to amend the deal fell through, leading Correa back to Minnesota, where he signed after an off-season last year as well.
The agreement includes a vesting option of four years and $70 million and will become official if Correa passes a medical review, which is currently underway. The focus will be on his lower right leg, which he broke in 2014 during a minor league game, and a source said the twins expect to be comfortable with it. Correa never spent time on the injured list due to a right leg ailment during his eight-year playing career, but Giants and Mets medical personnel were concerned about how the leg would age.
Correa, 28, is among the best shortstop in the game and entered the winter hoping to land the huge contract that eluded him last season, when he settled on a three-year, $105.3 million deal with the Twins that included a post-season opt-out. the first. Corea hit . 291/. 366/. 467 with 22 home runs and a top-notch defense, leaving the Twins hoping he’d consider a comeback after he applied for free agency.
Minnesota did not intend to play in the $300 million-plus neighborhood, and then Aaron Judge Returning to the New York Yankees, the Giants, in search of a franchise player, blew that number for Korea, leaving the Twins to try to salvage their winter by signing a player. Joey Gallo And a mask Christian Vasquez. All along, they’ve lurked as Korea’s back-up, and were excited to add him to a lineup that also includes an All-Star. Byron Buxton And Louis Araz In addition to the best potential customer Royce LewisAnd Jose MirandaAnd Jorge PolancoAnd Max KeplerAnd Nick GordonAnd Alex Kirillov And Trevor Larnach.
If Correa makes it through physically – the Twins are more familiar with his medical condition than any other team and earlier in the winter they considered a 10-year, $285 million deal, and it’s about what the current deal would end up being if the Jackets option – Minnesota goes into the year 2023 with strong hopes of winning the American Central League.
Meanwhile, the Mets will go into spring training without player owner Steve Cohen telling the New York Post to “put us on top” right after the team and Korea agreed to terms. It was a winter shock, a midnight coup by the Mets that took the most expensive team in baseball history and added a two-time All-Star and a postseason performance that would push the payroll nearly $500. Million.
What happened next reflects what allowed the Dead to shoot Korea in the first place. When the Giants balked at giving Correa the fourth-largest trade in baseball history for the leg, he wasted no time, catching up with the Mets less than 12 hours later. After the Mets raised similar questions, Correa’s agent, Scott Boras, continued to engage in discussions with the team, knowing that a second physical failure could blow up the Correa market. Talks with the Mets are close to three weeks in, lack of substantive progress has pushed Correa back into the market, questionable drugs and all.
They certainly ended up swaying the length of the deal, though, and Correa’s average annual salary of $33.3 million would be the second-highest paid in the position, behind the Mets shortstop. Francisco Lindor, who Correa was planning to play alongside at third base. The deal is less than the total dollars of the 11-year deals signed by fellow shortstop owners Tria Turner ($300 million with Philadelphia) and Xander Bogaerts ($280 million with San Diego) this winter, but it only tracks Judge’s nine-year, $360 million annual contract.
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