10:18pm: Manager Rocco Baldelli said postgame that the Twins are awaiting results from an MRI before they know a timetable for Correa’s return (X link via Betsy Helfand of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press). The team expects he will indeed require a stint on the IL. Castro is expected to serve as the primary shortstop while Correa is on the shelf, Park tweets.
8:06pm: Carlos Correa left this evening’s game in the third inning. The Twins quickly announced that the star shortstop has been diagnosed with a right oblique strain (relayed by Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com).
It’s far too soon to know how long Correa might be out of action. That Minnesota announced the oblique strain within 20 minutes of the two-time All-Star sustaining the injury seems ominous, though. It’s quite likely he’ll at least require an injured list stint of some kind. The Twins haven’t announced the seriousness, yet even Grade 1 oblique strains (the lowest severity) typically lead to multi-week absences.
Correa has started all 11 of Minnesota’s games. He’d gotten off to a hot start despite an 0-2 showing against Tarik Skubal this evening. Correa has picked up 11 hits and eight walks through his first 44 plate appearances, running a .306/.432/.444 batting line. That was a promising first couple weeks on the heels of an uncharacteristic down year. He’d turned in a slightly below-average .230/.312/.399 slash last season, the first of his six-year, $200MM free agent deal.
Willi Castro came off the bench to handle shortstop tonight. He’s one option to man the position if Correa does miss time. Kyle Farmer can play shortstop but has already been pushed to a regular third base role by Royce Lewis’ early-season quad strain. The Twins don’t have many natural shortstops on the 40-man roster. Austin Martin hasn’t played there in the minors since 2022, while depth infielder Yunior Severino has almost no shortstop experience. Top prospect Brooks Lee, who is not yet on the 40-man, has been on the minor league IL all year.
Fragile.
He clearly needs a massage
Yeah, but we all know he can still contribute from the dugout.
Im shocked…Correa suffered an injury! No way
Mlb should drug test these guys everyday. Couldn’t happen to better a hole.
What does drug testing have to do with a strained oblique?
Do you imagine he strained his oblique while reaching around to jab a needle in his backside?
Its probably not a backside shot that is causing these injuries, but rather a shot or two he was coerced into receiving in his arm the past 2-3 years.
Drug testing post may be legitimate here. Correct me if my memory is off with recent history of MLB but this lat oblique injury thinger wasn’t around pre steroid/PED era?
Ever hear of steroids, and performance drugs.
See ya in 2 months
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Farhan was right to pass on him thus far
Why would a cash strapped franchise like the Twins engage in a bidding war, and end up winning it, for a guy with his injury history??? ….. When you already have Royce Lewis, another walking injury, on the squad.
Don’t forget Buxton.
Anyone care to wager on the date of ByBux’s first IL placement in 2024? I’m going with 5/1.
You will take what you can get when you’re a small market team that hasn’t won a playoff series in 20 years.
“Playoff series in 20 years”..Wasting $200M on unmotivated, injury-prone, cheaters that rarely get on the field is a good way to go another 20 years between playoff wins. Is it coincidence that Boras’ clients have massive walk years(mostly centered around homeruns)and then their bodies break down like 65 year old men(see Kris Bryant, Anthony Rendon & Carlos Correa)?..It’s AROD/Manny Ramirez Scott Boras juicer’s syndrome .
I was the only Mets fan that was angry with the team for signing him originally. This guy is an overated bum that doesn’t want to play but still wants to collect. What a complete waste of money. Hes an “injury prone” version of Lindor. Both are so overated and are way overpaid
For sake of discussion, you really believe Lindor is over-rated?
I mean you can argue that Lindor is somewhat overrated but he’s still one of the best short stops in the game both offensively and defensively.
“You can argue that Lindor”…Now days staying on the field is possibly the most important attribute and guys like Lindor & P. Alonzo rate highly in that regard. It’s amazing that guys like Correa, Bryant & Rendon want top dollar, but once they get their long-term deals, they act as though you’re lucky if they play thru a broken fingernail.
Agreed Buzz. Overpaid *could be* debatable then, but who has over-rated Lindor and why are we listening to them? Semantics, I suppose. I’d rather a player get paid than an Owner buy another yacht, fwiw.
30/100/30 and GG work at short is “overrated?”
When healthy Corea is a top tier shortstop. Overrated??? Dream on.
“When healthy Correa is a top”…When you have to qualify praise, the player is completely overrated.
@padam I watch every mets game. He essantially pads his stats in garbage time or gets singles with 2 outs and nobody on. Hes not worth 30 mil, I don’t care if he plays in 1000 games, he stinks. His defense is good but not 341 million good
@LFGMets 98 RBIs last year and 107 in 2022. You must ve missed a few games…
LMAO @ “pads his stats”
lindor definitely overrated lol he a thug
A thug you say? Why don’t you tell us what you mean by that??
he’s likely to commit crime. and he just K’d with two runners on at a ball in the dirt
Yes, to morons
Robert Young encourages you to switch to Sanka.
So overrated with unrealistic valuation. Yes, he may not have been able to pressure/swindle anybody out of $350M or $400M but the fact that somebody caved and gave him $200M is egregious. The dude deserved like 4 years/$110M to 5 years/$160M, tops, at most… and even then….
He is not living up to any conceivable contract he was seeking in free agency and might go down as one of the most overhyped, overpaid players- and that is saying something. There are a lot of guys who got overpaid in terrible, expensive deals, but nobody with the level of hubris and ego and public whining involved with the process like Correa.
I bet he’s gonna give them like 14 WAR over 6 years (he will have 1 or 2 years with 3+ WAR and a couple years of 2+ WAR and mostly lost seasons of 1-2 WAR and extended IL stints) and in the end will have proven to have been worth nowhere near what he got, let alone what he almost talked people into… he’s gonna struggle to barely hang on for his 6 year deal and there’s no way those options happen … he so f stay healthy enough or be productive enough to trigger any of them. And those 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 year deals were absolute pipe dreams.
Your comment sounds like something Mr. Wonderful would say on shark tank lol.
I genuinely hate Correa with a passion. He’s a cheater. He’s a megalomaniac with no basis for that level of hubris. He tried to pressure the league into overpaying him over way too many years and the fact that he got somebody to give him even a fraction of that is a travesty.
Yep. Said it right.
Cheater. Should have been banned from MLB and lived in disgrace along with all the Astros hitters from those years.
wonder how long it’ll take before there are more players on the IL versus active on the field? elbows and obliques currently. knees and hammies coming soon.
With all the top guys on the injured list, MLB needs to lower ticket prices to minor league prices. Why am I paying top value to watch AAA players?
Because the bills are still due. I’m not a fan of the Owners (I defo lean towards taking the Player’s “side”) but I hear ya.
the economy of sports is insane now. not sure how a middle class family of 4 watches a Braves game for instance with any regularity. I have no idea when things may reset but fans push to spend to sign players, are cutting the cord so that RSN easy money isn’t there and the need to make money is making the game into a corporate box seat entertainment.
i’m not picking on the Braves nor siding with either players nor the owners but just wonder how the average American gets to watch their local team play live. baseball is just one sport where that’s the case. so I’m also not singling out MLB.
I suppose this discussion of injuries just started me thinking about how players’ short careers can end so quickly. and that blossomed into trying to think about it from their viewpoint as well as from the average person.
guess I’m grateful to be able to watch Wake Forest play this season. lol.
And it Begins …
This dude goes out there and gives it his all every game, played through injury all last year, mentors the young guys, loves the game of baseball and can break down any player or situation. Sucks that he got hurt. Hope he’s back on the sooner end of the timeline because he makes the game better.
This guy couldn’t even make it to 15 games played before he’s hurt again. And this guy thinks he’s better than Hofer Derek Jeter? Add him to the long list of Boras’ clients that get paid top dollar and then are so brittle they rarely ever play
@mlb fan
They don’t make MLB players like they used to. Guys were built like a brick house and worked on the farm to build strength and endurance. Too much trying to work out in the gym.
Indeed, he can teach those young ones the way of the trashcan. Strike hard strike first no mercy!
Agreed, he comes to win, every single day.
Not tomorrow apparently.
Now we just need Buxton to go down with an injury for the trifecta.
Remember when Correa was worth 250$ mill plus?? Yeah me either.
You don’t remember the thing you just said?
Buxton is next. Seasons over already
Buxton is a career .239 hitter with .299 OBP. Who really cares if he plays or not? Whoever replaces him will probably be better if he gets hurt. But, whoever it is, definitely won’t think they are as good as he thinks he is.
Frustrating player.
Poor Carlos! The best remedy for his owie is a cheating pad. I mean heating pad!
The Twins might as well buy a house in fourth place cause they ain’t movin’.
Obviously due to the pitch clock… hah