It seems the Giants aren’t alone in having sufficient questions on Carlos Correa’s well being historical past to hit pause earlier than finalizing an enormous contract with the star shortstop.
We’ll simply have to attend and see if the Mets in the end observe by way of.
Correa’s latest bodily examination for the Mets has “raised issues”, based on a report Saturday morning from Ken Rosenthal and Dan Hayes of The Athletic.
In line with the report, the Mets could have points with Correa’s surgically repaired decrease proper leg. That will be the identical problem that reportedly induced the Giants to again away from the $350 million, 13-year deal that they had agreed to with Correa on Dec. 13. That set off a sequence of occasions that included a hasty cancellation of Correa’s introductory information convention with the Giants on Tuesday morning and the door opening for the Mets to succeed in an settlement on a $315 million, 12-year take care of the previous Houston Astros star.
It additionally opened the Giants as much as huge criticism for failing to finish the deal in an offseason that already had seen them end runner-up to Yankees star Aaron Choose.
The Giants’ solely public touch upon the collapse of the Correa deal was a press release from Farhan Zaidi, the workforce’s president of baseball operations, who mentioned. “Whereas we’re prohibited from disclosing confidential medical info, as Scott Boras acknowledged publicly, there was a distinction of opinion over the outcomes of Carlos’ bodily examination. We want Carlos one of the best.”
Boras, Correa’s agent, on Wednesday instructed reporters in New York that the Giants had been nonetheless focused on working one thing out as of Tuesday morning.
“I mentioned, ‘How a lot time do you want?’ They set the time, they instructed me that they wanted — 1 o’clock they’d tell us,” Boras mentioned. “Then we obtained discover from them that they wished to proceed to speak and that they wanted extra time. However at that time limit, I instructed them I needed to have a choice whether or not they had been going to honor their letter of settlement that we had reached. They usually mentioned at that time limit they wanted extra info, they wanted extra dialogue. They wished to proceed to speak however presently they couldn’t go ahead. After which I suggested them that I needed to pursue various measures on behalf of Carlos with different groups.”
Throughout that session with reporters, Boras additionally mentioned of Correa’s well being, “There is no such thing as a present problem with Carlos’ well being in anyway. There’s been quite a lot of dialogue about backs and ankles. There’s nothing about him that’s at the moment any type of medical problem. All of the conjecture and analysis of him has been about physicians utilizing their crystal ball for years to come back.”
Correa, 28, has performed at the very least 136 video games every of the previous two seasons, and his most vital well being problem since he arrived within the majors was again accidents that sidelined him for elements of the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
If it’s the leg that once more raised a crimson flag, that’s an harm he suffered whereas he was a Houston Astros prospect and enjoying on the Excessive-A stage in June 2014. He suffered a fractured proper fibula when a spike was caught whereas sliding into third base, ending his season. He was within the majors lower than a 12 months later and gained the AL Rookie of the 12 months award.
Correa took his bodily for the Giants on Monday and underwent his bodily with the Mets on Thursday, Boras mentioned.
The Mets and Correa clearly may work issues out — fewer years appears most probably — however now it’s one other ready sport to see the place the No. 2 goal on this winter’s free agent market in the end lands.
The New York Publish’s Jon Heyman reported that the Mets and Boras are attempting to work out an settlement.
The Giants moved on from Correa by reportedly reaching offers this week with outfielder Michael Conforto on a $36 million, two-year deal, and left-handed reliever Taylor Rogers on a $33 million, three-year contract. The workforce additionally added outfielder Mitch Haniger and pitchers Sean Manaea and Ross Stripling earlier within the month.
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