MLB 2022

[The Buscher]

Ken Rosenthal now reporting that the Mets also have concerns with Correa’s physical.  Same concerns the Giants had (and injury from before he was in the majors).

Difference here is nobody from the Giants front office acknowledged the deal, whereas Steve Cohen immediately went to the NY Post to discuss it before it was even official.

AKA the Mets have little to no leverage in this situation.  If they back out it’ll be a record-setting grievance.

I suspect Correa will be a Met one way or the other and for the next few years of this window they’ll be in great shape.  But this is still a $315 million PR lesson to Cohen - don’t say shit until the contract is done.

[gunnar hendershow]

I think I understand why he had such a tough free agency last winter. Likely some very valid concerns, but Boras has Cohen dead to rights.

[The Buscher]

It’s also worth nothing that the day after the deal got reported, a front office source went to one of the Mets writers and sounded miffed that Cohen and Eppler worked this deal alone without consulting anyone else in the front office.

Possible that same source is the one that told Rosenthal that there were concerns over the physical.  Maybe these are relatively minor concerns and the source just wanted to put something out there as a hit job.

Boras famously doesn’t renegotiate on physicals but if Correa really did “fail” two physicals in a row that could change things even with Cohen speaking early.  Maybe he’s about to get a record setting AAV on a much shorter deal.

[GhostMachine]

If a player fails two physicals in a row, then a team should be able to back out of the deal. Sadly, it doesn't exactly work that way.

What it should be is that if a player fails multiple physicals, gets injured while under contract and it has something to do with the reason they failed the physical (ie. player fails due to a problem arm, then re-injures/injures it worse), then the team should be able to say `Adios, Motherfucker', because the player should have known better than to play with injuries in the first place.

 

[Draevyn]

1 hour ago, GhostMachine said:

If a player fails two physicals in a row, then a team should be able to back out of the deal. Sadly, it doesn't exactly work that way.

What it should be is that if a player fails multiple physicals, gets injured while under contract and it has something to do with the reason they failed the physical (ie. player fails due to a problem arm, then re-injures/injures it worse), then the team should be able to say `Adios, Motherfucker', because the player should have known better than to play with injuries in the first place.

 

It's not really that black and white at all. If that were the case then 9/10's of any sporting league wouldn't exist.

[Meacon Keaton]

Also why should only the player be punished when a team is still signing their part of the contract?

I hope Santa brought you some logic for Christmas.

[The Buscher]

It's that wonderful time of the year when HOF voters explain the reasoning behind their ballots.  The latest gem was Jon Heyman stating he didn't vote for Billy Wagner because he got hit hardest when it mattered most in the playoffs (21 hits and a 10.03 ERA in 11 2/3 playoff innings).

Billy Wagner pitched 915 innings of regular season baseball, had a sub-1 WHIP in them, struck out a third of the batters he faced, and is pretty clearly the best left-handed reliever of all time.  But nah, those 12 playoff innings cancel it out.

This process sucks.