While baseball’s owners are actively trying to harm the sport’s long-term viability in order to maximize short-term earnings — in addition to locking out the league’s players, a ploy that now poses a real threat to the regular season starting on time — I thought I’d do something that definitely hasn’t already been done to death: speculate about Carlos Correa’s free agency.
Coming into this winter, the 27-year-old Correa was considered by most to be the top free agent in an impressive class that featured heaps of premium players — especially in the shortstop department.