MLB] MLB offers $285 million, but the deal is off the table after one year despite the best intentions… “Lamentations” of the old home team that gambled everything and lost.

Last Updated on 12/17/2022 by てんしょく飯

The Twins offered Correa a 10-year contract to stay, but he gave in to the Giants’ 13-year, $350 million offer.

　Infielder Carlos Correa, one of the highlights of this offseason’s FA market, agreed to a 13-year, $350 million contract with the Giants on December 13.

The Twins, his team this season, also offered $285 million over 10 years to keep him, but it did not come to fruition. The Twins’ reporter Dan Hayes of The Athletic, a U.S. sports media outlet, reported that the Twins offered $285 million over 10 years to keep Correa.

The contract offered by the Twins to Correa is the highest in the team’s history. The Twins offered Correa the highest contract in their history, and it was the team’s top priority this offseason to keep him. However, their “efforts” were not fruitful. The Twins really wanted to bring Correa back,” Hayes said.

Correa played for the Astros until last season. He joined the Twins last offseason for a three-year, $15.3 million deal and this season hit .291 with an OPS of .834, 152 hits and 22 home runs in 136 games. Then in the off-season, he exercised his opt-out clause and became a FA. He opted to join the Giants.

Correa has a personality that quickly becomes friends with his co-workers. The article says that Correa shows “a desire to win and a positive attitude toward supporting his peers,” and that he “had leadership and clubhouse cohesion.” The Twins believed that Correa could re-sign with the Twins after he exercised his opt-out, and until December 12, they considered him a “strong candidate.

On December 13, however, he realized that the situation had changed and that he would have to extend the length of his contract. However, he was reluctant to do so. He thought it would not be a problem to keep Correa, who is now 28 years old, until his 38th season (under a 10-year contract), but he could not extend it any further.

The highest offer in the team’s history did not materialize to keep Correa. The article quotes a lamenting comment from a team executive: “We knew that we could lose out on a larger amount of money.