Aaron Decide reacts to Carlos Correa’s reported Mets contract stunner

New York could have some thrilling baseball in retailer for the 2023 MLB season, one thing San Francisco can’t quite promise simply but.

The Giants’ efforts to make a free-agency splash had been outdone by the 2 golf equipment separated by the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge — the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. Aaron Decide will retire in pinstripes, and Carlos Correa will spend the following dozen years as a Met.

Not solely did Giants followers get up to experiences of Correa agreeing to a 12-year, $315 million contract with the Mets, however they’d about 10 seconds to course of the information earlier than being reminded of their different offseason failure. Decide formalized his nine-year, $360 million contract Wednesday morning at Yankee Stadium.

After expressing how excited he was to be again within the Bronx, Decide reacted to the Correa information.

“It is thrilling information. I came upon this morning,” Decide stated on MLB Community. “New York is the perfect place to play. I feel he is aware of that, and he values going out and successful and being in a successful tradition, a successful group.

“The Mets are constructing a successful workforce over there. They’ve acquired some nice items, they’ve acquired younger core of fellows and have some guys locked up for fairly a very long time. I feel Carlos will like enjoying in New York, that’s for positive.”

 

Correa was a bodily away from changing into a San Francisco Large after each events reportedly agreed to a 13-year, $350 million contract final week. San Francisco flagged one thing within the star shortstop’s bodily, although, and the reported deal was placed on pause.

However Correa’s agent, Scott Boras, took over the distant and pushed play.

RELATED: Boras claims Giants had ‘reasonable time’ to finish Correa deal

Boras stated they gave the Giants “reasonable time” to complete the deal, however an excessive amount of time had handed, and Boras started negotiations with different groups. Seven days after reportedly agreeing to phrases with San Francisco — even going as far as to vary his Twitter cover photo to Oracle Park — Correa is a Met.

The Giants and their followers, who had been able to deliver an MLB star to the Bay, witnessed two potential candidates stroll away from the group in a two-week span.

The place the Giants go from right here is unknown, but it surely’s protected to say their 2023 season opener in opposition to the Yankees and their four-game sequence in opposition to the Mets later in April in San Francisco will probably be fascinating for all concerned.

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