Carlos Correa’s latest update provides surprisingly good news for the Mets

The Mets still don’t have a deal with Carlos Correa after he suffered a similar physical blow to the injury the Giants did, but fans still have to hope.

Few epics have been as brutal as Carlos Correa in the 2022 season. After first agreeing to a contract with the San Francisco Giants, that deal fell through after the team ran into trouble with an old injury that was discovered in his body. Then that allowed the New York Mets to swoop in and agree to a trade — only then to point out the same problem on his body.

Since that time, the Mets and Correa have been seemingly in limbo. The Korea camp doesn’t want to change the terms of the initially agreed contract while New York, obviously, wants to change something about the deal, whether it be the language of compensation or length or something else.

Perhaps most nerve-wracking of recent days, though, has been the little word on either side and the specter hanging over the situation where another team could do exactly what the Mets did to the Giants by pouncing on another deal.

So far, though, it seems New York fans don’t have much to worry about — at least not yet.

Carlos Correa update: No Mets deal, but no other teams involved yet

MLB insider John Heyman, who first broke the news in the middle of the night that Corea and New York had reached the tentative agreement, said, The reasons why it was necessary to sign the deal were eventually reported between two sides. And it boils down to the fact that both the Mets and Corea want that to happen.

But what he has to be more optimistic about is that Correa and his agent Scott Boras have had calls from other teams and, according to Heyman, been turned down. According to the league insider, they want it to be with New York just the way it is right now.

Now, let’s be frank. With the way things have turned out up to this point, this aspect of the Korea negotiations should be seen as fluid at best. Still, it’s a good sign as of Dec. 30 that Shortstop and his agent don’t want other teams involved right now while they work to get something done with the Mets.

The only thing Heyman didn’t update was the timeline for this deal to close because he used the word “eventually.” But given the nervousness around Korea and New York at the moment, what he’s saying should mitigate some of that for the time being.

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