2023 Team

[MrSheps]

Oh for sure. I wonder if they're seeing some deterioration to the repairs made previously in these physicals, and thus they figure an additional surgery may be in the future. Or maybe he's fine now but with an injury such as that they simply foreshadow less mobility past a certain age. Seemingly that's less of a concern if he moves to third, but it also may be part of why the Astros didn't try harder to keep him, who knows. The Twins deal was for 3 years max, so if it's a deterioration thing, less of a concern for them when they signed him a year ago.

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I mean, complain about the cubs but honestly Correa was the one everyone wanted and now Boras indicating they might talk to other teams.  Seems like the cubs may have been right on this.  Turner was gone and was anyone really dying for Xander?

To me the issue is if this was the Cubs' top guy and they couldn't come close to affording him. The leg thing seems to have been a surprise to the Giants and to a lesser degree the Mets, whose owner was stupid to speak publicly about the deal and perhaps to take the deal knowing the Giants had medical concerns post physical. So I don't know if you can say the Cubs were right about Correa, unless his time on the IL was concerning to them in general. Swanson has been very healthy, so perhaps that was a factor, but I can't imagine they keyed to a leg injury from his time in the minors.

That said, I'm happy to not be in this mess, and I'm probably more of a fan of the Swanson signing than most. It's just also hard to look at Cohen's "it's just money" approach to ownership and not be envious. Or the Dodgers bringing in Mookie and then Freeman.