Correa's agent, Scott Boras, said on Thursday that he expected the 28-year-old would pass his physical that same day with the New York Mets. He said the results are expected before Christmas.
Just three days after a physical examination that led to "a difference of opinion" preventing him from signing with the San Francisco Giants, free agent shortstop Carlos Correa was due for another one on Thursday.
"There is no current issue with Carlos' health whatsoever," Boras said at a press conference introducing former Giant Carlos Rodón as a New York Yankee. NBC Sports Bay Area's Alex Pavlovic reported on Wednesday, citing multiple league sources, that the Giants"had concerns about an ankle injury" Correa sustained as a 19-year-old Houston Astros prospect. He needed season-ending surgery in 2014 after sliding into third base on a triple, and the Astros said at the time that his surgery repaired a fractured right fibula and ligament damage.
Those can limit mobility, and the Giants expected Correa to play a position that prioritizes it: shortstop. San Francisco was set to move Brandon Crawford to third base, whereas Correa will move to the position so Mets star Francisco Lindor can remain a shortstop in New York. Correa missed nearly a full season's worth of games due to back issues in 2018 and 2019. Since then, he has played in all but 42 of 384 possible regular-season contests. Fredericson told The Examiner that recurrent back problems can be difficult to predict, depending upon a number of factors that makes it"tricky to correlate" with existing X-rays and MRIs.
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