Now we face the dreaded dregs for the next ten games. Only the Astros seem to do worse against dregs than leaders.
Keep an eye on Detroit as a sleeper pick for Carlos Correa this offseason. Hinch gives them a familiar face (plus they might still have Grossman), they should have plenty of money, they should be ready to make a splash signing, and they have a need at SS. They have good players at 3B (Candelaria), C (Hasse/Rogers), and CF (Baddoo) and near-ready elite prospects in RF (Greene) and 1B (Torkelson). Add in their young rotation and the prospects they should get from the players they trade away this deadline, and it is reasonable for them to sell themselves as similar to the 2015 Astros.
Have to think that his wife is going to have a say and Detroit probably isn't high on her list. You're not wrong in your assessment...but I think if he's leaving, it will be for a large market team.
Yankees will make a play for him because Torres is horrible and they got plenty of space next season. If anyone was made for the NY limelight, it's Correa. The Yankees need some clutch hitting.
Can’t see Carlos going anywhere that isn’t ready to win immediately, and while as you state Detroit has some good talent on the way, I can’t imagine Carlos looking at himself as the final piece of a championship team there next year And I’m guessing the wife wouldn’t list Detroit on her preferred destinations But in the end money talks. He probably takes the highest offer wherever it is or stays right here, and staying here is still where my money is
Lol I do see the fit in NY, but do they have that kind of money coming off the books? Many still look at the Yanks as a team that will just outspend everyone in free agency, but they haven’t necessarily been that team for a while now. Certainly they have the money and will always be one of the top salaried teams, but they don’t just say hell with the cap we will spend whatever we need to
Yankees are up against the tax and only have $11M (Kluber) coming off their books, and have a huge arb class. They may break the bank for Correa or Story or Seager but I don’t think they have “plenty of space”. I agree that Correa is suited for and likely wants a big market like LA or NY. But I don’t see any of those teams being able to give him $250M+.
They almost 100 million available next year. They have plenty of space. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/new-york-yankees/payroll/2022/
I would use https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/payroll/yankees. Yankees, have $11M coming off and 17 players headed to arbitration. They will easy be $10-20M over the luxury tax just bringing back arbitration players. Sure, they can have $80M under the CBT if they don't want to keep guys like Judge.
Altuve is an Astro until 2024 at age 34. He's making 29 million a year. I can see Astros paying Correa till age 34 (which would be an 8 year contract). 30-35 Million a year.
Yeah they will have $100M in space if they non-tender Judge, Sanchez, German, Frazier, Cessna, Montgomery, Loaisiga, Peralta, Higashoka, Green, Torres, Urshela, Andujar, and Voit. That’s half their everyday lineup, 2/5 of their rotation, and half their bullpen. Otherwise they will have to non-tender a few of those guys just to be under the tax. Like I said it wouldn’t shock me if the Yankees went over the tax and signed a big free agent but I wouldn’t bet on it.
I think that's fair and hopefully they do make that kind of offer. I wish they would have done it in the off-season though as I think he would have been more likely to take a home-team discount when he's not also fielding likely superior offers from other teams.
If Houston was going to offer Correa a long term deal they would have done it this past offseason. I think the only way Houston brings Correa back is if somehow his market doesn’t meet his expectations and he wants to take a short term deal to take another shot at free agency. But the way things are going and the season he is having, someone will step up and offer him $200M+ and he will take it. My expectation is that Houston shops for a SS from the 2nd (Semien, Baez, Taylor), 3rd (Crawford, Gregorius), or maybe even 4th (Simmons, Villar, Galvis, Iglesias, Andrus) tier of free agents, banks on one of Pena, Leon, or Nova to be ready to be the everyday SS soon, and uses their available money on extensions for guys like Tucker, Alvarez, and Valdez.
