<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jeff Luhnow on Carlos Correa:"If he performs n Triple A the way he has been performing he's going 2be an option 4Houston n very short order"</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/597845439203840000">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jeff Luhnow on Carlos Correa: "I think he'll play with the Astros this summer but that remains to be seen."</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/597845470187126784">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
If he goes ham in Fresno like he did CC, he may force a decision quicker than July. One can hope, right?
Get a sense that they are just pining for the proposed Super 2 cutoff so they can call him up. They have to have a specific date in mind.
I really hope he doesn't end up coming up just a couple of weeks shy of the Super 2 deadline without a contract in place. But I do hope he tears it up in AAA. Maybe I should hope for a 2 week adjustment period followed by 6 weeks of beasting --> promo
Do you really honestly care about super 2? Like personally, does it affect your ability to be an Astros fan? It's a big deal for the owner. Certainly, just one year of early arbitration could mean millions....but I still don't get why fans would get bent out of shape for that. If Correa is indeed the real deal, and we have an owner/front office who wants to trade him during the arbitration time... Or keeps to such a fixed/tight budget that Correa's millions directly limits their ability to get or retain a needed player... Then I'd be more worried about facing those scenarios than an arbitrary super 2 deadline. I do agree that a long term contract signing would be very nice... Mainly because that could bring him up tomorrow, rather than keeping him down for $$$ issues.
Do you really honestly care about super 2? Like personally, does it affect your ability to be an Astros fan? It's a big deal for the owner. Certainly, just one year of early arbitration could mean millions....but I still don't get why fans would get bent out of shape for that. If Correa is indeed the real deal, and we have an owner/front office who wants to trade him during the arbitration time... Or keeps to such a fixed/tight budget that Correa's millions directly limits their ability to get or retain a needed player... Then I'd be more worried about facing those scenarios due to having that sort of owner, than an arbitrary super 2 deadline. I do agree that a long term contract signing would be very nice... Mainly because that could bring him up tomorrow, rather than keeping him down for $$$ issues.
Anybody have a date that we could wait to that gives us the most control over him but still getting him up this year?
His service time isn't effected by what time he gets called up this year. If we wanted another year of control we would have to wait until 2 weeks into the 2016 season. Super 2 would mean he gets paid more, but doesn't change team control.
Absolutely not. Not bent out of shape at all. Just saying what I would l do if I were in their shoes, and therefore what I'm ok with happening and expect to happen. If I understand the rationale and even agree with it big-picture-wise (i.e. the millions might turn into an extra SP rental in a true contention year or something), it makes it easy for me to understand and applaud right now. It's not that I think it limits us. But everyone has some limit in mind. Say for Crane, his absolute upper limit is $110M. If we're sitting at $100M in a contention (i.e. NL champ favorites or close to it) year, he's more likely to trade for a rental upgrade than if we're sitting at $110M. So I think the probabilities are higher than this enables a move down the line...I'd like to keep that option available given that this year is much less likely to be a "high likelihood of winning it all year" vs. the future, and given that we're talking about a 2-3 week difference in timing for the current year. Yep, on the same page--because it accomplishes both things and locks him up longterm (risk minimizing)
While technically true, it seems like good players would only be willing to deal with 2 years of arbitration at maximum. So in reality, I feel like Super 2 does cut a year off club control because it would likely result in a LT deal 1 year sooner.
I picked the monster up a few weeks back in my dynasty keeper league we've been playing in for over 10 years. I wasn't missing out like I did with Bryant. I'd be down for a 15 year SS/3B. Oh, and I want the 'Stros to be more bad ass and stuff.
