On a long enough timeline players in New York make their way to Minnesota.
Usually it’s former Yankees players that the Twins are buying potential upside on, but this time things are different. With Carlos Correa’s deal with the New York Mets uncertain, it appears Scott Boras has circled all the way back around.
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According to Jon Heyman and Greg Joyce from The New York Post, the Twins are one of a handful of teams reportedly ‘in some contact’ about a deal with Correa. The news comes as Correa’s monster contract offer with the Mets has hit a snag due to the same medical issue that got in the way of a deal with the San Francisco Giants.
"There’s been decent hope for two weeks that Correa and the Mets could finalize the agreement, with a few alterations, and Correa’s camp had limited discussions to the Mets until Thursday. But two weeks into the discussions, the unresolved issues have at least led Correa’s agent Scott Boras to check in with other teams. The incumbent Twins, who know Correa best and offered close to $285 million over 10 years, were one of the teams in some contact with Boras."
For what it’s worth, one source close to the Mets told Heyman and Joyce that “ultimately, I don’t think Mr. Cohen is going to let him go,” which throws some cold water on any excitement from this unexpected development.
That $285 million deal was turned down in favor of a 13-year, $350 million deal with the Giants.
No one ever wants to be second-best — or third-best, in Minnesota’s case — but the offer from the Twins is suddenly looking a lot better than it apparently did when it was originally extended.
The question now is, how will this play out any different for the Twins than it has for the Giants or Mets? It’s essentially the but it might work for us meme come to life, as it’s fool’s gold to believe that Correa’s medical issue with his leg will suddenly disappear when he takes his physical with Minnesota.
Then again, the Twins are perhaps more familiar with his surgically reconstructed lower right leg than any other team in baseball. And if there’s a front office willing to let bygones be bygones in the name of salvaging an otherwise lackadaisical offseason, it’s the one doing business inside Target Field.