{"id":164418,"date":"2022-12-21T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/scott-boras-says-giants-had-reasonable-time-to-execute-carlos-correa-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T17:46:04","slug":"scott-boras-says-giants-had-reasonable-time-to-execute-carlos-correa-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/scott-boras-says-giants-had-reasonable-time-to-execute-carlos-correa-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Boras says Giants had ‘reasonable time’ to execute Carlos Correa deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight days after Carlos Correa tentatively agreed with the San Francisco Giants on a 13-year, $350 million free-agent contract, his agent, Scott Boras, told the team he could wait no longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reached an agreement. We had a letter of agreement. We gave them a time frame to execute it,\u201d Boras said. \u201cThey advised us they still had questions. They still wanted to talk to other people, other doctors, go through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, ‘Look, I’ve given you a reasonable time. We need to move forward on this. Give me a time frame. If you’re not going to execute, I need to go talk with other teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boras did just that early Wednesday morning, reaching agreement for Correa with the Mets on a 12-year, $315 million contract. That deal, too, is pending a physical, but Mets owner Steve Cohen is already on record talking about his addition, telling the New York Post, \u201cWe needed one more thing, and this is it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you felt a little dizzy upon waking up, you weren’t alone. <\/p>\n

As most of the baseball industry slumbered, Mets owner Steve Cohen negotiated a shocking, 12-year, $315 million contract with Carlos Correa. @ByMcCullough<\/a> on Cohen’s ruthless directness:https:\/\/t.co\/7lGxXCUpim<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cohen’s comment will make it much more difficult for the Mets to back out of their deal with Correa if they identify problems in his physical, a former executive familiar with such matters said. The Giants postponed a news conference Tuesday at which they were set to introduce Correa because of a concern that arose during their medical review, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n

In Boras’ view, Correa is a healthy player.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re talking about a player who has played eight major-league seasons,\u201d Boras said. \u201cThere are things in his medical record that happened decades ago. These are all speculative dynamics.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery team has a right to go through things and evaluate things. The key thing is, we gave them (the Giants) medical reports at the time. They still wanted to sign the player and negotiate with the player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team medical personnel occasionally offer different interpretations of a player’s medical records, just as a doctor giving a second opinion on a patient can disagree with the first. The Mets, for example, backed out of a deal with pitcher Kumar Rocker, the 10th pick in the 2021 draft, because of reported medical concerns. The Rangers picked Rocker third in 2022.<\/p>\n

Correa, 28, has been mostly healthy the past two seasons, appearing in 148 games with the Astros in 2021 and 136 games with the Twins last season. He signed a three-year, $105.3 million free-agent contract last March, and exercised his right to opt out of the deal after one year. If the Twins had any concerns about Correa’s ability to stay healthy at the time, the short-term nature of the deal lessened the risk.<\/p>\n

The most significant physical problems Correa ended were earlier in his career. He has welldocumented back that led to stints on the injured list in both 2018 and 2019, and issues a 19 season-ending leg injury in June 2014, while he was and still in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n

The leg injury occurred when Correa was on the verge of a promotion to Double A with the Astros. Correa hit an RBI triple and his spike got stuck on the bag. The initial report was that the issue was with his ankle. But it turned out Correa required arthroscopic surgery to repair a fractured right fibula and minor ligament damage. He has not been on the injured list for a lower right-leg issue since.<\/p>\n

As for Correa’s back, whispers surfaced last offseason, during his first go-round in free agency, that he was not fully healthy. Correa hired Boras last January, and Boras had him visit Dr. Robert Watkins, whose website describes him as the \u201ctop spine surgeon for professional athletes in the world.\u201d Both Correa and Boras told The Athletic<\/em> in April Watkins gave the player a clean bill of health, and Boras conveyed that information to clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a detailed medical review of Carlos’ past and present medical records and arranged a battery of physician exams,\u201d Boras said. \u201cThe findings confirmed a very elite and healthy player and dismissed any rumored concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Correa, \u201c(Watkins) said, ‘This dude is as stable, as healthy as he can be.’ Hearing that from the best back doctor in the world, it was reassuring. I knew that already because I’ve been feeling great. But to get that expert opinion, after an MRI and the work I’ve been putting in \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what I tell people. There’s no way you can go out and win a Platinum Glove if your back is not right. There’s no way you can put up an .850 OPS if your back is not right against the elite pitching we’re facing today. There’s no way you play 148 games \u2014 and I could have played more, but the COVID IL got me \u2014 if your back’s not right. There’s no way you sign a $105 million deal for three years, go through physicals for insurance and for the team if it’s not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Photo: Ronald Martinez \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n