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Trading for him is a 3 year commitement of 33 per. Its a huge risk. His avg is all over the place. Hit like .290 first year in MIN, then had a down year .230, but then hit .310 and now is .250-260. Its really sporadic with him which is probably due to injuries and trying to play through them.
Could have just resigned Bergman then at that annual amount Correa had similar'ish up/down years in Houston too. Not in BA but in OPS. But his presence was a little bigger than the "pure numbers" Still, Correa only makes sense if Minny eats some significant contract cost. Not sure Minny does that.
Bregs was offered fair market but chased the bag. Correa will end up playing more games for the Twins this year than Bregs plays for the Sox.
Correa's also going to play more than Yordan this year and Tucker last year. I know he's still always going to be an injury risk... but doesn't seem like there's any Ironmans in baseball (or on the Astros).
"Fair market" is whatever the free market is willing to pay. In this case, that was more than what the Astros offered. And Alex has been 10x the player Carlos is this season. Way, way better offensively and defensively.
$33M is high. My estimate is at $31.2M if traded for him now and it won't happen without the Twins paying some money. They should get it to $25Mish. IF - they get him, then for 2026 and 2027 they have an infield of Walker, Correa, Paredes, Pena, and sometimes Altuve with Dubon there for 2026 too. Matthews becomes expendable and can be used to get Minnesota to pay more. I think Correa give this team a huge shot in the arm for 2025 and he will be motivated and step up his game just like JV did in 2017. And he has a 122 wRC+ in July and 140 in 2nd half so is not playing poorly. For 2026+ he is basically an infield version of Yordan. Will miss time but good when on the field. Just hope he is healthy in the postseason and pats enough to help them get there.
Big picture The Astros had a 5 game lead at the All Star break and now have a 4 game lead. Not ideal, but also not tragic. If the Astros can manage to go 28-28 the rest of the way, the Mariners and/or Texas must go 33-23, (or .589 winning %) to overtake them. (32-24 would tie) The Astros just need to win series' and keep the pressure on because the pressure IS still on Seattle and Texas.
