Go to sleep thinking about how the Mets will move Carlos Carrasco’s $14 million contract and wake up to learn they instead added Carlos Correa’s $315 million contract.
Begin the offseason believing that to own New York baseball, Cohen would have to grab Aaron Judge from the Yankees. Instead, he just upstaged Judge’s Wednesday introductory press conference by signing Correa from his Hawaiian vacation. . The Yankees raised their bid to nine years at $360 million and kept their biggest star. So San Francisco pivoted to Correa for 13 years at $350 million, but not before Cohen made an eleventh-hour effort to land Correa.
The Giants were supposed to have a press conference Tuesday for Correa. The Yankees did have a press conference Wednesday for Judge. In between, the Mets signed Correa.One other thought comes to mind with Judge – if the Yankees had dawdled with him and the Giants hadn’t closed the deal, we can now assume the Mets would have tried to get Judge. Nothing is off limits. Hell, I assume the Mets already have their first bid in on Shohei Ohtani – and he won’t even be a free agent until next offseason.
It took me three different looks before I realized that 3B meant “third base” – the new position that Correa will play next to Francisco Lindor – and not “$3 billion.”At midnight as Tuesday turned to Wednesday, Eduardo Escobar was the Mets third baseman. Brett Baty was going to challenge him for the position. Now they are both trade fodder. Baty, in particular as one of the game’s top prospects, becomes uber-intriguing since his third base job is now blocked for a decade – or until Baty is 33.
Do the Mets use Baty to try to land one of the Marlins’ young starters such as Jesus Luzardo? Do they use him to try to seduce Cincinnati into dealing Alexis Diaz to pair with his brother, Edwin? Do they wait until the trade deadline to see if Ohtani actually becomes available? Or if Milwaukee is ready to trade one of their top starters, Corbin Burnes or Brandon Woodruff? For this organization now, everything is in play.
But the Mets have now signed nine free agents this offseason at $806.166 million. They have signed five of the 13 biggest free agent deals so far. And you always have to include “so far” because …
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