News and Notes: Red Sox suffer a significant injury blow, Carlos Correa winds up returning to Minnesota, and more
The unpleasant winter season in Boston (for their baseball group, not their hockey group) took one more turn on Tuesday when word appeared that Trevor Story had actually undertaken UCL surgical procedure on his best elbow joint.
The aggravating component concerning this for Red Sox onlookers (and the type of funny point if you support for a group that bets them in the American League East) is that there had actually been suspicion concerning Story’s elbow joint resilience and whether he would certainly be able to stick at brief long-lasting. Despite that, the Sox paid Story $160 million last winter season, and after that eventually chose to allow Xander Bogaerts, their internally-developed, All-Star center infielder, stroll in totally free company one year later on …
The Red Sox used Trevor Story $50 million more than they used Xander Bogaerts last springtime.
Never fail to remember. Never forgive.
— Matt McCarthy (@Matt McCarthy985) January 10, 2023
It’s just the center of January so there’s still time left, yet the free-agent market does not flaunt much names that can effectively make up for what the Red Sox have actually shed, and it’s undoubtedly never ever suitable to seek a sell a placement of despair such as this.
Speaking of free-agent shortstops, Carlos Correa has actually concurred to his 3rd agreement this winter season, this time around with the Minnesota Twins as his physical with the New York Mets went southern.
Correa’s handle Minnesota, certainly, is pending a physical, yet words last evening was that the Twins are hopeful that every little thing will certainly come up penalty. It’s a six-year, $200 million agreement with numerous vesting choice years that can eventually have the offer max out at $270 million.
Though his 3rd agreement deserves substantially much less than the very first one he authorized with the San Francisco Giants method back when, Correa still obtained himself the huge, multi-year deal he had not been able to discover last winter season when he picked a 1 year, show-me handle the Twins.
Contracts authorized by the 4 freelance SS:
Carlos Correa to SF– 13 years, $350m
Carlos Correa to NYM– 12 years, $315m
Carlos Correa to Min– 6 years, $200m
Trea Turner to Phil– 11 years, $300m
Xander Bogaerts to SD– 11 years, $280m
Dansby Swanson to Cubs– 7 years, $177m
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) January 10, 2023
It’s very easy to see why he would certainly prevent that for his very own purpose, and it would certainly likewise have actually established a rather hazardous criterion for gamers authorizing multi-year, free-agent offers progressing.
As your eye examination has most likely informed you over the previous couple of years, this team has actually had a really challenging time striking damaging spheres. The pitch that Belt is ideal at mashing? Breaking spheres …
“Those aren’t bad marks from Guerrero, Jansen, and Kirk — they are good hitters, after all — but Belt has been just so tremendously good at pummeling breaking balls. Sure, the odds that he repeats his out-of-nowhere 2020–21 resurgence are infinitesimal. But even if you isolate 2022, a year in which he dealt with injuries and generally fell back down to Earth, he still recorded a .435 wOBAcon versus righty breaking balls. That bests any of Jansen and Kirk’s individual marks, albeit in a limited sample. The bottom line is that Belt, for his entire career, has feasted on specific types of pitches that gave the Blue Jays minor troubles. He isn’t a hitter who happens to hit left-handed; he’s a left-handed hitter who can fill a valuable niche for a lineup.”
