Carlos Correa looks like he's following the A-Rod career path, and although it might sound like it, I don't mean that negatively. Make your name with your first team, find the mega contract and get to a massive media city where you can start being versatile and go from rich athlete to rich personality. CC was really good on the TBS desk,there's no doubt he's angling towards media after his career. A-Rod's personality and business sense has made him fairly impervious to the scandals he was involved in. Now he's pushing $350 million in net worth.
The flip side is that Carlos might have boxed himself into a corner by not securing the long-term deal last year and doing this rent-a-team crap with the Twins. It seems illogical that even the Yankees could sign both him and Judge to long-term deals, and Judge has to be their priority if they have their druthers. That narrows his "media darling" choices down to what - the Mets, the Dodgers, and the Angels? Maybe the Red Sox?
Seems unlikely the Sox would jump Bogaerts, he's only 29 and a career .292 hitter, made a bunch of all-star teams, and locked up through 2026.
Mets have LIndor, who had a great season and is locked up through 2031.
Dodgers have Trea Turner who had a huge season but is a free agent coming up.
Angels have whoever Andrew Velazquez is, who was horrific in 2022. .196 average, 15 walks, 119 strikeouts. But if you go to Anaheim, even assuming they can afford you, you are no better than the third-most popular player on the team, infinitely behind Trout and Ohtani. And I know Carlos wants to be THE MAN wherever he goes.
So that really leaves the Yankees. WE all know Boras's rep, but I wonder if Carlos will have him go to NY and say "Make a good offer, and Carlos will sign early, and you take the pressure off yourself with Judge." Judge turned down 7 years, $213.5 million BEFORE the season. That's saying "Nope" to $30 million a year before you hit 62 HR.
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