Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch knows Carlos Correa as well as anybody in baseball.
Hinch watched from the dugout as Correa made his MLB debut in 2015 for the Houston Astros. That year, Correa earned the American League Rookie of the Year. Two years later, Hinch and Correa beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the 2017 World Series. The manager-player duo journeyed back to the World Series in 2019 but lost to the Washington Nationals. They were also involved in the Astros' sign-stealing scandal, which happened in 2017 but wasn't investigated by MLB until November 2019.