Small market teams do. I’m also wondering if the Astros feel this season is the best we can do with a luxury tax level payroll and this core… and suddenly it may not be worth it from a business standpoint (poor attendance throughout baseball), and the looming CBA.
There were rumors Click tried to trade Correa last offseason. Also, a player with one year of control isn't going to get you some massive haul of top prospects. While Correa had a really nice post season he was not good in the regular season last year. The Indians gave up Lindor and Carassco for Gimenez, Rosario, Wolf, and Greene. Gimenez is not very good, Rosario is okay and basically a replacement level player, Wolf had a bad season in the minors, and Greene looks okay in the Arizona Complex League but he has a long way to go and is only 19. That was for Lindor who had 1 year left and Carassco that had 2 years of control plus a team option. He was also very good in 2020 with a 2.91 ERA. https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-star-floated-in-talks-ahead-of-contract-year Astros probably decided it was worth keeping him for one more year compared to what they could have gotten in trade.
Bleacher report is usually solid but I would be highly speculative of this report. Maybe it was brought up internally amongst the stat geeks but Crane has never traded a good player during the contending years with the long term in mind.
I hope they make around a 7 yr.- $210M offer. He would be a FA again at 34. I doubt anything less than that gets it done and anything more is probably too long or too much for the Astros to take on. Make Jeremy Peña super utility-INF + 4th OF. Trade one of Siri/Meyers/McCormick for pitching prospect.
It was reported by Ken Rosenthal and that is what the bleacher report cited. Here's another story about it. The athletic article from Rosenthal is behind a pay wall. Astros quickly denied it, but Rosenthal isn't the guy to just make stuff up usually. https://climbingtalshill.com/2020/11/24/astros-open-trading-carlos-correa/
For a player that's about the worst possible time you can hit free agency. Nobody is giving you a large deal at that age so payers wanna be locked into high paying salaries ahead of time. 7/210 doesn't even register on his radar unless it is heavily frontloaded with an opt out.
Yeah if they want to keep him but avoid a long contract they could try 6/200 with a player opt out after year 3.
Team Correa should be negotiating with opt outs. Finances change that much in just 3-4 years, and once they get the CBA settled, there’s still a growing presence of increased revenue secondary to games now on streaming platforms, etc. And once again, teams can get out of long deals via trade when needs outweigh the presence of one player. No team is truly “stuck” with a player unless that player falls off a cliff production wise.
That last inning was a tear jerker. Carlos came here a boy and gave his heart, sole, ribs, to the city and became a man. Was a true pleasure to get to watch the first 7 years of his career, undoubtedly the most successful first 7 years for any player in the postseason ever.
Gilbert Arenas said it himself if you want to get paid avoid the GM and talk to the Owner directly himself and get paid.
LA Angels New York Mets Boston Red Sox - Alex Cora Miami Marlins - Best spot for Carlos Correa and Derek Jeter is the Owner Detroit Tigers - AJ Hinch
Honestly, since Correa has his heart set on a 10 year deal, he should be shown the door. I'll hate to lose him, but I just can't see giving a 27 year old Correa that kind of deal with guys like Jeremy Pena coming up and guys like Tucker, Alvarez, Yuli, Brantley, Bregman, and Altuve already on the team.
I take it that you think Carlos is gone and Astros won’t put out competitive offers? honestly I don’t get Crane if this is the case. We have a strong three year window and they will be CCs prime years. Also, sign Carlos and we are talking about statues of him and Altuve outside of MMP forever. I don’t understand how cold rational analytics and roster management doesn’t cede to franchise history.
