Brewers In Top Half Of Carlos Correa Landing Spots

[clancyphile]

MLB.com placed the Brewers in the 9-14 range of possible landing spots for Carlos Correa.

https://www.mlb.com/news/carlos-correa-free-agent-options-ranked

Seriously... Correa at short for a year, Does that mean Adames to third or second? Or does Willy get some time at first?

Or is this more a case of the Crew should have been in the "All set at shortstop, thanks" category?

[brewerfan82]

Logically I would say they should have been in the "All set at shortstop, thanks" category, but it's not like they're not known for both 1.) taking 1 year flyers on guys that slip by the initial offseason market, and 2.) acquiring players for positions that seem to be already set. So who knows?!

[JohnBriggs12]

It's not going to happen but if it did, then they find a taker for Wong and Cain with next to nothing in return other than salary relief

[JosephC]

If I were to put the list together, I'd put the As, Reds and Pirates as the 28-30 group and then have the Brewers in the next group.

 

 

[CheezWizHed]

The Brewers seem to be in the where else can we play SSs and CFers position?  Both in their MLB aquisitions and in their drafting. ?

[KeithStone53151]

1 hour ago, JosephC said:

If I were to put the list together, I'd put the As, Reds and Pirates as the 28-30 group and then have the Brewers in the next group.

 

 

Correa is more likely to get signed by the LA Rams than those 3 teams...

[SeaBass]

11 hours ago, KeithStone53151 said:

Correa is more likely to get signed by the LA Rams than those 3 teams...

Yet we live in a world where the Rockies sign Kris Bryant to a mega deal...

I would put the A's and Pirates in their own group with the Reds in their own group above them. They have at least demonstrated a willingness to sign free agents in the recent past.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I just don't really see how this is possible. Someone is going to give Correa $250m and I just can't see the Brewers being the team that does it.

[nate82]

9 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I just don't really see how this is possible. Someone is going to give Correa $250m and I just can't see the Brewers being the team that does it.

Recent rumors for Correa have been light with only the Astros being connected to him.  Correa reportedly rejected a long term deal with the Tigers.  The Astros have been reportedly interested in offering Correa a short term deal.  Something like a 3-year deal where Correa can opt out after the first year.  

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Recent rumors for Correa have been light with only the Astros being connected to him.  Correa reportedly rejected a long term deal with the Tigers.  The Astros have been reportedly interested in offering Correa a short term deal.  Something like a 3-year deal where Correa can opt out after the first year.  

Huh. That's really surprising.

[NBBrewFan]

13 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Huh. That's really surprising.

It only takes one team and it was the Rangers who gave Corey Seager the 10year/$325M contract.  Correa wants more than that (hello Davante 2), so a lot of teams are backing away as that's a lot of money.  The Dodgers just picked up one of the better FA options out there for HALF that amount. Based on $8M per WAR that means Seager/Correa would need to put up 40 WAR over the lifetime of the contract or 8 years of 5 WAR.  Most teams that are smart understand that's a lot of risk.

[JosephC]

Correa hired Boras and it's very likely Scotty put a minimum $300 million price-tag on him for a long-term deal.  Reports were the Tigers offered him 10 years, 275 million and were rejected.  The Astros are reported to have offered 5 years, 160 million and were rejected.  So 275 million didn't get it done, and 32 million per year for 5 years could not get it done.  So now it looks like Boras has scared off pretty much everybody.  That's why some are mentioning a one year deal where Correa can jump back into the market and try again next year.  And since a similar situation, on a smaller scale, happened with Grandal going to the Brewers, the Brewers are being thrown into the speculation.

[jw5511986]

Correa to the Twins 3 years, $105.3 million with opt outs after years one and two.