[BostonCard]

this just in...Mets are now concerned about Correa's physical, too.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/rep...with%20him.

Saw that.  Curioser and curioser.  I may have to eat a large plate of Crow.  Goes well with a nice Cab…..

So... is there some unwritten rule that says teams don't do due diligence with $300 million contracts? First the Giants, now the Mets? I mean when the Giants balked, shouldn't the Mets have been a little more circumspect, especially given the Kumar Rocker situation last year?

In any case, there is no reason the Giants couldn't have negotiated the same kind of insurance clause spoken about in the linked article about Mets having concerns about Correa too. Does Correa now end up going back to Giants? I'm not understanding the "it will be difficult for the Mets to get out of their deal with Correa based on Cohen's public comments" assertion. Anyone know how this can be the case?

Trying to employ Occam's Razor here...

1. The Giants (and Twins, and Mets) did, in fact, do their due diligence prior to engaging with Correa.  They likely did have a look at all of the AVAILABLE medical information prior to their physical.

2. Now it's possible, just barely possible that a major league professional baseball team, might, just might find in the mandated physical, medical evidence from an in-person medical physical that contraindicates the existing information that the team had prior to the negotiations. I know that sounds absolutely absurd. Let's take it another surreal step further...what if, maybe, just MAYBE, the Giants have a better medical staff than the Twins? I know that the San Francisco Bay Area is a medical backwater with chiefly incompetent medical professionals, but I suppose that in an alternate universe, a physician employed by the San Francisco Giants might have found something that a Minnesota Twins physician DIDN'T find.  Can you imagine?  I could...  <<Sarcasm alert, for those of you who are on the fence about what I just wrote.>>

3. Final absurdity...an arrogant New Yorker making arrogant statements that ratify his personal decision before the medical evidence is in. Could that be possible? I know, since most New York billionaires are kindly, modest, self-effacing types not prone to making over-the-top statements that they regret later.  In other words, it's just possible that Cohen's BS "trumps" the medical evidence, as it were. Incidentally, MLB warns team executives not to comment on pending deals, particularly since it gives leverage to the player in any arbitration or jury trial. Which means that Cohen has given away, for free, a significant amount of leverage over Correa. Oops.

4. The Giants, BTW, wanted to get other opinions. Boras -- possibly knowing the extent of the damage -- didn't want to wait. He went quickly to the Twins -- who also balked -- and then to the Mets and their bloviating owner, Steve Cohen. In the attached article, it is pointed out that contracts are generally completed within 24 hours of the physical. Correa's Mets physical was Thursday. It's now Saturday, and he's still not signed.

Excellent Athletic article here: https://theathletic.com/4033222/2022/12/...-concerns/

Mick, you are on a roll.

BC

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Educated guess is that the X-ray showed something, like erosion or degeneration around the plate, which means that having a surgery to revise the plate will be needed sooner or later.

BC

[BostonCard]

this just in...Mets are now concerned about Correa's physical, too.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/rep...with%20him.

Saw that.  Curioser and curioser.  I may have to eat a large plate of Crow.  Goes well with a nice Cab…..

So... is there some unwritten rule that says teams don't do due diligence with $300 million contracts? First the Giants, now the Mets? I mean when the Giants balked, shouldn't the Mets have been a little more circumspect, especially given the Kumar Rocker situation last year?

In any case, there is no reason the Giants couldn't have negotiated the same kind of insurance clause spoken about in the linked article about Mets having concerns about Correa too. Does Correa now end up going back to Giants? I'm not understanding the "it will be difficult for the Mets to get out of their deal with Correa based on Cohen's public comments" assertion. Anyone know how this can be the case?

Trying to employ Occam's Razor here...

1. The Giants (and Twins, and Mets) did, in fact, do their due diligence prior to engaging with Correa.  They likely did have a look at all of the AVAILABLE medical information prior to their physical.

2. Now it's possible, just barely possible that a major league professional baseball team, might, just might find in the mandated physical, medical evidence from an in-person medical physical that contraindicates the existing information that the team had prior to the negotiations. I know that sounds absolutely absurd. Let's take it another surreal step further...what if, maybe, just MAYBE, the Giants have a better medical staff than the Twins? I know that the San Francisco Bay Area is a medical backwater with chiefly incompetent medical professionals, but I suppose that in an alternate universe, a physician employed by the San Francisco Giants might have found something that a Minnesota Twins physician DIDN'T find.  Can you imagine?  I could...  <<Sarcasm alert, for those of you who are on the fence about what I just wrote.>>

3. Final absurdity...an arrogant New Yorker making arrogant statements that ratify his personal decision before the medical evidence is in. Could that be possible? I know, since most New York billionaires are kindly, modest, self-effacing types not prone to making over-the-top statements that they regret later.  In other words, it's just possible that Cohen's BS "trumps" the medical evidence, as it were. Incidentally, MLB warns team executives not to comment on pending deals, particularly since it gives leverage to the player in any arbitration or jury trial. Which means that Cohen has given away, for free, a significant amount of leverage over Correa. Oops.

4. The Giants, BTW, wanted to get other opinions. Boras -- possibly knowing the extent of the damage -- didn't want to wait. He went quickly to the Twins -- who also balked -- and then to the Mets and their bloviating owner, Steve Cohen. In the attached article, it is pointed out that contracts are generally completed within 24 hours of the physical. Correa's Mets physical was Thursday. It's now Saturday, and he's still not signed.

Excellent Athletic article here: https://theathletic.com/4033222/2022/12/...-concerns/

Mick, you are on a roll.

BC

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Educated guess is that the X-ray showed something, like erosion or degeneration around the plate, which means that having a surgery to revise the plate will be needed sooner or later.

BC