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So it seems like our limit on FA position player contracts is the Grandal contract.

Sox were willing to give opt outs?

Boston or Texas will offer him 3 years and 60ish million with opt outs every year and he'll probably take it.

Opt outs are the craze right now

Sounds like he's assuming the Sox are in, but haven't heard anything concrete on it.

Definitely Correa to the Twins. At least the Rockies were linked to Bryant. I don't think anyone expected the Correa signing.

The MLB Drops kid put that he was 1/2 of MLB Drops in his bio with his real name He really thought people couldn't put 2 and 2 together.

fathom was right, MLBDrops definitely had an in with the Rangers all right.

Probably cause Renfroe wasn't very good defensively last year and they wanted to get better there. RF is hard to play at Fenway.

Story makes more sense than Conforto for them. I don't think they traded Renfroe for JBJ just to sit him.

Well, Conforto and Story are very similar in that they are both coming off down seasons. And now they're the last 2 big free agents left.

I feel like the Sox don't have a good feel of how to appease the players they want to sign in terms of their relatives. With Machado, we got his relatives and he didn't sign here. With Wheeler, we didn't appease his wife and he didn't sign here. Gotta know which players are truly family first.

Does Conforto have any relatives we can trade for?

General reactions from the fanbases that thought they had a shot at Correa Astros: super pissed Cubs: just kinda pissed and thought they could match Yankees: pissed that the Twins took advantage of them

IDK about you, but I'd like Twins fans to stay discouraged.

Garrett and Baez Kelly and Correa All in the same division

Polanco was really good last year. Sano, if he actually gets into shape, might be good again. That's a big if though.

Houston probably didn't want to give him the opt outs.

If you think about, they kind of just combined Donaldson's bat and Simmons' defense from last year into Correa.

If we go back to that Heyman tweet about the Twins being interested in Conforto, that was definitely an effort by Boras to up the Sox offer cause he knew that the Twins were getting Correa.

The Twins were never gonna get a player of his caliber for the long-term cause they were never gonna be able to give him the 10 year $300 million+ deal he wanted. This is probably the only way they get a player of Correa's caliber. And it carries minimal risk for them cause it's only $100 million guaranteed. Unless something tragic happens to him, he'll probably opt out after the 1st year.

Or injured, which he has a history of.

Getting a 5 WAR player like Correa on what is basically a 1 year deal at $35 million is market rate. Yes, it's expensive, but would you rather have a 27 year old at $35 million a year or would you rather give that 27 year old a 10 year $30 million/year deal and watch him suck it up in the last 5 years of it?

For a team like the Twins, that's what they want.