Rumor: Gleeman Reports Twins Have Made Correa Substantial Offer

[IA Bean Counter]

2 minutes ago, KirbyDome89 said:

What's more likely, the Twins are bidding against themselves and Boras (and the baseball world) has been playing them this entire time, or MN isn't alone in committing the type of money reported, i.e. they aren't setting the market? 

Minnesota put out the first offer.  I don't think they have budged.  I do think Boras is trying to get them to bid against themselves, I don't think its going to work.  

[KirbyDome89]

20 minutes ago, IA Bean Counter said:

Minnesota put out the first offer.  I don't think they have budged.  I do think Boras is trying to get them to bid against themselves, I don't think its going to work.  

I guess we'll see, but it'd be shocking if the baseball world was totally wrong and Correa signed for sub $300M with the Twins being $25M+ above any other interested party. 

[mrtwinsfan]

Vasquez just signed with the TWINS 

[Doctor Gast]

4 hours ago, IA Bean Counter said:

The Twins have a contract offer of 285 million for 10 years.  This has been reported by a couple people.  Based on that information,  the Twins have the best offer currently on the table.  The only interested party at this point that could be willing to outbid is the Giants.   However if they were willing to outbid, I thought they would have done it by now.  Boras has a history of going directly to the owners to try to increase the contract,  I don't think that will work with the Twins.  It could possibly work with the Giants or another team that were to get involved.  I think the Twins feel comfortable waiting this out right now.  I could see Correa signing a 4 to 6 year contract with opt outs and trying again,  but it is fairly clear his past history is limiting the number of teams interested in him.  He has stated he prefers a long term contract.  When you knock out the Dodgers, Houston, Red Sox and Yankees,  and the Padres are willing to get Bogaerts instead of you,  that really limits the teams willing to spend big on you.  Just think where he would be at if the Twins weren't willing to go big,  225-250mil maybe???   

I believe that's a possibility

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Signing Correa to one-year options made sense last year. Correa is very good but I have performance questions about his time in Houston, and am worried he would be a candidate to really fall off at some point. We should give him the benefit of the doubt for his injuries, but there is a history there. Signing him to a lifetime deal makes me really uneasy. What happens to Lewis and Lee then? What am I missing? 

[Mike Sixel]

2 minutes ago, Hosken Bombo Disco said:

Signing Correa to one-year options made sense last year. Correa is very good but I have performance questions about his time in Houston, and am worried he would be a candidate to really fall off at some point. We should give him the benefit of the doubt for his injuries, but there is a history there. Signing him to a lifetime deal makes me really uneasy. What happens to Lewis and Lee then? What am I missing? 

Lewis moves to left and  center when Buxton is hurt. Lee plays third or second or right field. Miranda moves to DH or first. They aren't close to having a logjam. Or, one of them is dealt as part of a deal for a very good pitcher. 

[prouster]

14 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Lewis moves to left and  center when Buxton is hurt. Lee plays third or second or right field. Miranda moves to DH or first. They aren't close to having a logjam. Or, one of them is dealt as part of a deal for a very good pitcher. 

Exactly. You want to have too many good players. 

[Richie the Rally Goat]

40 minutes ago, prouster said:

Exactly. You want to have too many good players. 

Oh no! Too many all-star short stops on dirt cheap contracts! Whatever will we do?

[Rosterman]

They are going to change the name from Target Field to Correa Field.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

1 hour ago, Mike Sixel said:

Lewis moves to left and  center when Buxton is hurt. Lee plays third or second or right field. Miranda moves to DH or first. They aren't close to having a logjam. Or, one of them is dealt as part of a deal for a very good pitcher. 

Easy peasy, right? 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

38 minutes ago, Rosterman said:

They are going to change the name from Target Field to Correa Field.

and rename the infield Dior Diamond!

[solomon1930]

2 hours ago, prouster said:

Exactly. You want to have too many good players. 

I would add too many good players that are healthy.  

[nicksaviking]

18 hours ago, ashbury said:

This leak is only for plausible deniability for later, when they need to say, We Tried™.

The tipoff, and this has already been mentioned, is the phrase "far beyond anything in franchise history." The leak comes from the Twins side, not the Boras/Correa camp.

I'll be happy to eat crow on this if Correa does sign.

While this is almost certainly the case, it didn't need leaking as Boras himself has already provided the PR hype for the Twins by saying "Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes and right now they're fishing in the ocean". 

Which is so corny it turns my stomach, but is directly from the horse's mouth.