Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa volition workout his opt-out clause and go a escaped agent, helium told El Nuevo Día paper Wednesday.
Correa, who deed .291 with 22 location runs, 64 RBIs and 70 runs scored successful 136 games this season, said present was the clip to take escaped agency.
"With the twelvemonth that I person had, my wellness and my being astatine the champion infinitesimal of my vocation astatine 28, that is the close decision," Correa told the Puerto Rican newspaper.
The shortstop spent the archetypal 7 years of his vocation with the Houston Astros, winning a World Series title successful 2017. He did not find the semipermanent declaration helium was looking for past wintertime and chose alternatively to motion a three-year, $105.3 cardinal woody with the Twins that included aggregate opt-outs.
"I person a bully narration with Minnesota. I americium precise funny successful being capable to return," Correa told the newspaper. "I person been successful this concern for a agelong time, and I cognize that things bash not ever spell the mode 1 wants them to."
According to FanGraphs, Correa's WAR of 4.4 this play ranked 5th among American League shortstops. The Twins finished successful 3rd spot successful the AL Central with a grounds of 78-84.
Correa remains a arguable fig due to the fact that of his relation with the sign-stealing ungraded that tainted the Astros' 2017 World Series rubric and his adamant defence astir the legitimacy of the championship. Before the 2020 season, helium told reporters, "When you analyse the games, we won just and square. We earned that championship."
The apical wide prime of the 2012 amateur draft, Correa went connected to triumph AL Rookie of the Year honors successful 2015 and is simply a two-time All-Star.
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