Author: /u/chiligaming46

There are not many teams Correa can go to get the money he wants.

Doing a little payroll digging I found that there are 7 teams that could go after Correa. The rest either have people under contract or are still rebuilding and wouldn’t give up their compensation pick to the Astros. Two teams that would definitely go after Correa are the Angles and the Giants. The angles always throw money at big bats and will have the money with Pujols off the books. The Giants could also bid for Correa as Crawford’s contract expires this year, however, this may sway them not to sign Correa to a long-term deal because of this. Two teams that might go for Correa but won’t due to possible fan backlash and probably a toxic clubhouse are the Dodgers and Yankees. The Yankees even less depending on how they feel on Torres at the end of the year. Then there are 3 wild card teams that could go for him the Reds, Cubs, and Twins. They are wild cards because I doubt they would go for him but could seeing as they have the cap space and an open position I wouldn’t be too surprised if they did.

With that said I wouldn’t be surprised if he stays an astro as a lot of money is coming off the books this year and he probably still wants to be on competitive teams. The big thing that might really dictate him staying though is how the CBA goes as that dictates the amount of payroll you can have before the competitive balance tax comes into play.

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