New York media is pondering the availability of Minnesota’s star shortstop. Sadly, it’s fair game.
On Saturday, the New York Post published a column from Joel Sherman suggesting the following premise: “Yankees, Mets should test Twins’ waters for possible Carlos Correa trade.” He proposes that both teams explore the possibility of acquiring Minnesota’s All-Star shortstop, two years into a historic contract signed in 2023.
Sherman’s reasoning comes together like this:
“Structurally, the Twins don’t work.” Their core trio of Correa, Byron Buxton and Royce Lewis is too injury-prone to elevate the team.
“Financially, the Twins don’t work well.” Too much of their now-limited payroll is invested in Correa to properly build around him.
Correa’s contract and checkered availability make much more sense for a big-market team with more robust resources than the Twins.
Interestingly, the article includes a quote from Derek Falvey in which he directly addresses the topic, acknowledging that the Twins have “been hit” in the past with trade interest on Correa, as well as Buxton and Lewis, while conspicuously not ruling out anything out.
“If they came at us, we’re open-minded to anything,” the Twins president of baseball operations shared. “Obviously Carlos has a full no-trade clause. We love him. We’re always open-minded when team teams hit us on all of our players. We’ve been hit on Carlos before, we’ve been hit on Byron [Buxton] before, we’ve been hit on Royce [Lewis] before. That’s not shocking to anybody, but we hold an extremely high bar to even start that conversation, and I still feel like those guys are critical to our success.”
