At one point this offseason, Carlos Correa had mega deals from the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. Both deals fell through due to concerns about his health.
He would eventually go back to the Minnesota Twins where he spent last season after he left the Houston Astros in free agency.
Correa suffered an ankle injury back in 2014 that hasn’t really affected his career, but it was bad enough for the Giants to back out of a 13-year, $350 million contract with him and the Mets to pull the plug on a 12-year, $315 million agreement before he inked a six-year, $200 million deal with the Twins.
A new report from the New York Post’s Jon Heyman sheds new light to the teams’ uneasiness about committing so many years and dollars to Correa.
According to Heyman, a doctor suggested Correa has the “worst ankle he’s seen.”
Heyman wrote regarding Correa’s free agency:
Meantime, Carlos Correa’s three deals did provide a lot of drama. But in the end, he may have gotten the right deal — six years with a high $33.3 million annual average — following a lot of headlines. One rival exec predicted no one will ever again get $200M after two failures (one doctor suggested Correa has the worst ankle he’s seen) and called it a “Houdini” job to get that much after a “collapsed market.” But the Twins love him and pay no tax.
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Despite his health concern, he was still able to secure $200 million from the Twins following the debacle with the Giants and Mets.
“Doctors have a difference of opinions. I had a lot of doctors tell me that I was fine. I had some doctors that said it wasn’t so fine,” said Correa the day he was introduced (again) as Minnesota’s star shortstop. “It was shocking to me because since I had this surgery I never missed a game. My ankle’s never hurt.”
Whatever the case, Correa now has to outperform the stigma of a medical professional thinking he has the “worst ankle” he’s ever seen.
