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News, Blog and GuidesThe crowning jewel of this MLB free agent class, Carlos Correa has reportedly signed the biggest contract in history with the Minnesota Twins
Jeffrey MayJeff_DiarioASUpdate: Mar 19th, 2022 15:02 EDT
The most coveted free agent of this MLB offseason is now off the market. Carlos Correa is an Astro no longer. But in a twist worthy of Hollywood, it wasn’t the giant mega-teams with the bottomless billfold who signed him. He wasn’t vacuumed up by New York or Boston, but instead will sign a three-year, $105.3 million deal with the Minnesota Twins. You read that right. The Minnesota Twins.
Shortstop Carlos Correa and the Minnesota Twins are in agreement on a three-year, $105.3 million contract that includes opt-outs after the first two seasons, sources confirm to ESPN. First with the deal was @MarkBermanFox26.Wow.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 19, 2022
As reported by Fox 26 Houston’s Mark Berman and ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Correa’s deal will have opt-outs after each of the first two seasons. But this deal now makes Correa the highest-paid infielder on average annual salary in MLB history.
Hitting .279 with 26 home runs and 92 RBIs in 2021, the superstar Astros shortstop finished fifth in the American League MVP voting. The 27-year-old has spent seven years with Houston, where he was 2015’s AL Rookie of the Year and helped the Astros appear in three World Series, winning one in 2017.
Correa starting the off season with a war of words with Yankees legend Derek Jeter and then dumping his agent for Scott Boras in January.
.@CraigMish asked Derek Jeter about Carlos Correa's comments in which he said Jeter didn't deserve any of his Gold Gloves. Jeter: "I didn't think much about it." pic.twitter.com/plB3kPPj4s
— Mike Cugno (@MikeCugnoCBS4) November 19, 2021
Now, after a tumultuous free agency, which saw Correa sell his Houston home as a statement of intent, then be courted by Boston, the Yankees, and Toronto, before Houston stepping back in to up their original offer, Carlos will take his considerable talents to the Twin Cities.
What does this signal about those teams, that they have taken one of the top shortstops in the Major Leagues and so undervalued him that he has chosen to go to Minnesota? Or does this signal something else: that the Twins are over-paying for the middle infielder. I would personally err toward the first of those suppositions, that he was under-valued by the big names. As proof, I would suggest that since Correa had an offer of 10 years at $300 million from the Orioles, his value is well represented by his actual pay.
Minnesota is signing shortstop Carlos Correa, the crown jewel of the 2022 free-agent class. How did that happen? And what does it say about the respective plans of the Twins, Yankees, Astros, and more? @BenLindbergh: https://t.co/8bGD6aODYd
— The Ringer (@ringer) March 19, 2022
