Baseball’s Winter Meetings have come to an end. Many of the top free agents have already signed, but one very elite All-Star shortstop, Carlos Correa, remains.
The future of Carlos Correa is unknown
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Carlos Correa has proven to be a locker room leader wherever he goes, and he brings a sweet stick with him.
With a career batting average of.279 and an average of 19 home runs per season. These are excellent numbers for a shortstop, especially given his glove consistency.
There’s a reason Correa has become so valuable in baseball, where he’s likely to sign a contract worth $30 million per year for the next nine or ten years. Many organizations have attempted to entice the 2015 AL Rookie of the Year to join their team, but it has yet to happen.
According to one MLB insider, the Correa free agency race may be down to just two teams: Twins and Giants.
Correa and his agent, Scott Boras, have narrowed the landing spots down to just two teams, or at least the two that have shown the most interest so far.
According to Bleacher Report’s Steve Phillips, the San Francisco Giants and, once again, the Minnesota Twins are the current favorites to sign Correa.
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The Giants are unsurprising, as after losing out on spending $300 million or more on Aaron Judge, they had to focus their attention on improving their lineup elsewhere, hence their keen interest in acquiring another star in Correa.
Only Correa appears to be drawn to returning to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where he appeared to enjoy his lone season of postseason baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Despite being a small-market club, the Twins are demonstrating that they will not avoid a large payday if it means getting their guy.
Signing Correa would be monumental for Minnesota because it would be the largest contract the team has ever paid out.
But there’s also a lot of internal pressure to improve a roster that includes a budding but frequently injured superstar in Byron Buxton, a mediocre pitching staff with no ace, and a team that has missed the playoffs two years in a row.
What happens next, stay tuned for the latest MLB news.
