The story of Carlos Correa and his future within Major League Baseball (MLB) seems more and more like a never-ending story, because he still hasn’t reached an agreement with the New York Mets and now has a new team in Major League Baseball that you want to get their services for the next few years.
It is precisely the Minnesota Twins, a franchise that joined the fight for Correa a few days ago and that has now begun to speed up talks with the native of Puerto Rico to count on his services again and reinforce his squad for the campaign. 2023 Major League Baseball.
The team wants to take advantage of the fact that the agreement between Correa and the Mets for 12 seasons and 315 million dollars has been stopped for more than two weeks and they are set as a quick and safe option so that the former World Series champion with the Houston Astros can continue in the MLB and fight for new titles in the best baseball in the world.
The information about this fact was released by the journalist Ken Rosenthal, from The Athletic, who explained that the conversations are going quite “fluid” and things have begun to accelerate between both parties when seeing the refusal of the Mets to sign him for the next harvests.
The Minnesota Twins want the two-time All-Star to stay in the city and for that they recently presented him with a very competitive offer to the Mets, although with fewer years that would complicate his participation in the Major Leagues. for the last stage of his career.
Journalist Jeff Passan revealed that the team would have changed its offer of 10 years and 285 million dollars that it presented in December for a six-year offer in exchange for 200 million dollars. However, there are still some factors to be determined before he can make his decision.
Over the weekend, Mets owner Steve Cohen was focused on signing Correa, although no progress had been made on this. “Although I can’t speak for the player, I do believe we will have a resolution soon one way or another,” Cohen told Mets YouTuber Tyler Ward.
Now, with these two specialized baseball sources, the New York team has to make a hasty decision to continue with the negotiations or simply become one of the suitors that the Puerto Rican had this season.
During the 2022 Major League season, the Puerto Rican native posted an impressive .291 average with 152 hits, 22 home runs, 64 RBIs and 70 runs scored in 522 at-bats to be one of the franchise’s offensive leaders.
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