Yeah, I'm shocked about Correa. Maybe the Giants dodged a bullet, maybe something else happened. No matter how you spin it, things look bad for the Giants organization. Signing Correa was not going to solve all the problems on the roster, but San Francisco's appeal as a free agent destination has only been reconfirmed as being very, very low for myriad reasons: it's too cold, too far away from players' preferred home bases in the south or Arizona, California taxes are too high (apparently not a problem for the Dodgers or Padres). The city of San Francisco itself may also have a poor reputation amongst players (though there've been a number of high profile examples of skeptical players who arrived via trade and totally embraced the City).
Given these realities, and given the nature of their recent championship teams — home-grown core supplemented by savvy trades and second-chance, lower tier free agents — the Giants need to get serious about fully embracing a total rebuild. They tried to play it down the middle during Farhan Zaidi's tenure, but aside from one 107 win season, it hasn't really worked out, and the farm system has regressed over the past couple of seasons. Ownership needs to bite the bullet and start over from scratch, and really focus on getting better at player development. Fans need to accept reality and be patient.
I also don't think this is a great deal for the Mets. Correa's bat loses a lot of value at third base IMO, and I guess we'll see how the injury situation plays out.
Giants have to figure out why players are eschewing them.
Perhaps it's because this ain't the Magowan Giants. Or even the Neukom Giants. It's the Johnson Giants.
Granted that's still a long way from something like the Fisher A's, but whatever it may be, the track record of the GM, and team Prez suggests it's not them.
On Correa's part, a story on ESPN suggested he approached this new deal like a "marriage," for the rest of his baseball "life."
What does it say of a person's character, to flee the "altar" so quickly? Never mind his involvement with the Astros, which caused the Dodgers, who will not shy away from talent of any kind, to treat him as an untouchable?
Posey he's not, if we're talking about a franchise player who serves as the face of the team.
The truth will be revealed, and it remains to be see if the Mets got a sweet, clean cherry convertible, or a clunker.
As I said before, build from within, with your farm system. It's hard, but satisfying.
If one or two players were the silver bullet on an otherwise crappy team, the Angels would have multiple titles by now, with Ohtani and a healthy Trout. But it's a team game, and they don't.
And never count on anything with Boras as agent.
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