Report: Doctor Claims Carlos Correa Has ‘Worst Ankle He’s Seen’
“Doctors have a difference of opinions. I had a lot of doctors tell me that I was fine. I had some doctors that said it wasn’t so fine,” said Correa the day he was introduced (again) as Minnesota’s star shortstop. “It was shocking to me because since I had this surgery I never missed a game. My ankle’s never hurt.”
Correa underwent surgery on his ankle in 2014. Eight years later he’s been fine, but that wasn’t enough to keep the Giants and Mets interested at a $200 million price tag.
Report: Doctor Claims Carlos Correa Has ‘Worst Ankle He’s Seen’
Insider Jon Heyman of the New York Post slipped a line about an unnamed source saying that Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa’s ankle is in horrible shape.
Per @JonHeyman one doctor suggested Carlos Correa has the worst ankle he's seen 😳 pic.twitter.com/SuNyDYktCt
— The Game Day MLB (@TheGameDayMLB) February 3, 2023
According to Heyman, “one expert claimed Correa has the worst ankle he’s seen,” and once Correa’s market purportedly fell, getting $33.3 million annually from the Twins was the “work of Houdini.”
The Giants and Mets reportedly offered Correa enormous contracts, but tests on his ankle scared them away. As a result, the Twins re-entered the race and signed Correa to a six-year, $200 million contract.
Quickie back-and-forth from last night with #MNTwins SS Carlos Correa at the Diamond Awards: pic.twitter.com/bXAQzRXCjM
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) January 27, 2023
It's Heyman so fwiw but "one doctor suggested Correa has the worst ankle he's ever seen" pic.twitter.com/G2dkwBv5Dj
— Razzball (@Razzball) February 3, 2023
His agent, Scott Boras, believes the Twins felt Correa’s functional fitness outweighs the concerns that showed up on MRI scans before his deals with the Giants and Mets fell apart.
“This scenario is about a large separation in the orthopedic community about functional fitness and clinical exam versus looking at an MRI. Surgeons who don’t treat athletes but they do a lot of surgery will look at an MRI and say one thing, and the other doctors that treat patients and look at them and they find little credence in the MRIs when they’ve seen dramatic performance, particularly over an 8-year span and they’re going to reward that with functional fitness and say certain athletes have certain pain levels, certain tolerance,” said Boras.
From Jon Heyman's column at the New York Post:
"one doctor suggested Correa has the worst ankle he’s seen."
— Metsmerized Online (@Metsmerized) February 3, 2023
“Many orthopedists believe there’s almost a Darwinian concept where you actually grow into a formation of your being able to compete and perform,” he continued. “It is a dramatic chasm between how some doctors feel and other doctors feel about the longevity of a player’s performance.”
Whatever the case, Correa now has to outperform the stigma of a medical professional thinking he has the “worst ankle” he’s ever seen.
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