By Guillermo Sanchez
The most dramatic soap opera of the 2023 MLB offseason was undoubtedly the one related to Carlos Correa. Why tell you something you already know? I remind you: she went from Minnesota to San Francisco for 13 years and $350 million in the western United States; from there he flew east, to New York, in a 12-year, $315 million “deal” to end up in the center, on the Canadian border, well, where it all began, in a six-year, $200 million contract.
After deals with the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets for Carlos Correa fell through, his agent Scott Boras managed to land an even better contract with his old team (was he ever “old”?), Minnesota Twins.
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Regarding the facts that led to the failure to reach an agreement, Carlos Correa recently declared: “Wow, what a ride it’s been. Lots of emotions involved throughout the whole process, but I always believed that at the end of the day, God will put me in the right place.”.
Boras, for his part, told Bob Nightengale about USA TODAY recently than this “It’s been one of the craziest winters of his career resulting in $1.1 billion worth of free agent contracts and it’s been quite the ride,” says Boras, “to say the least.”.
But when the agent was rebuked about the orthopedic specialist Dr Robert AndersonHe himself was not very happy. Let us remember that this doctor was consulted by New York about the results of the operation on Correa’s surgically repaired right ankle, but curiously he was the same one who expressed concern in San Francisco.
I don’t understand the Mets said Boras to Nightengale. “I gave them all the information. We had them talk to four doctors. They knew the problem the Giants had. And yet they still call in the same doctor the Giants used for their opinion. There was no new information. So why negotiate a contract if you were going to depend on the same doctor?.
“It was different with the Giants because a doctor had an opinion that they didn’t know about. But the Mets figured this out. They knew the opinion of the Giants. So why did you negotiate when you know this in advance?.
“I told [a los abogados de los Mets]: ‘Now they’re putting the contract at risk,’ Boras told USA TODAY. I have to cover your risk with your deferral. You can not have everything. You can’t defer the contract, save $100 million in CBT taxes, and have him take all the risk on the back of the contract that’s not guaranteed.”.
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Boras, for his part, at the end of this whole situation, believes that he got the Puerto Rican a better contract with Minnesota than the one he had in New York. If we take out the calculator, it’s not even that false, Correa will earn $42.5 million more in the first six years than what the Mets offered.
“I think this is a better deal for him because of the contract structure,” Boras said. “The probability of playing 12 years [sin lesiones] it was not planned. It wasn’t a favorable deal unless you had strong guarantee language. This contract is better because of probability. There is much more present value”.
According to Nightengale, Boras ended with the following message between smiles: “Look, we don’t want to go through something like this ever again”.
