Tag: Carlos Correa

Carlos Correa had the sickest bat flip after his homer against the Red Sox and here’s every angle of it

Carlos Correa just had the coolest moment of the postseason

Alright, look y’all. The Houston Astros are still incredibly hatable after their cheating scandal from a few years back. That stink isn’t wiped away completely.

But, uh, Carlos Correa, man. This dude is pretty awesome — we’ve got to be honest about that. And he had the most incredible moment against the Red Sox in Game 1 of the ALCS on Friday.

Correa steps up to bat with the game tied 3-3 in the bottom of the 7th with two outs. The count is tied 2-2.

Hansel Robles throws the pitch at Correa and then he absolutely blasts the thing out of the park. And he knew exactly what he did when he did it. It was incredible.

After he hit the ball, he tossed the bat and checked his wrist. Didn’t even watch it. It was so cool, man.

That go-ahead homer essentially clinched the game for the Stros. They never looked back. But I’m here to tell you that even if they lost this might still be the coolest homer of the year. That bat flip, man. The nerve of this guy.

This is just what he does.

It was so good, we’ve got to take a look at it a few more times. Here it is from every angle.

Carlos Correa has an unpopular solution for MLB players’ pay during pandemic

Carlos Correa seems more open to compromise than other players around MLB.

Houston Astros star Carlos Correa is showing more willingness to get back to work than many of the other big-name players around MLB during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

While Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Blake Snell and Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper are leveraging to avoid pay cuts and keep a full season, Correa seemed more open to compromise with the owners.

“Our contracts are for 162 games. If we play 81 games, then getting paid for half of it sounds right,” Correa told ESPN Radio in an interview on Saturday.

It seems there’s some dissent among MLB players about whether that would qualify as a pay cut. Harper and Bell seemed to oppose compensation on a per-game basis — Bell said he doesn’t want less money, even if there are fewer games. And he definitely doesn’t want an additional pay reduction if there’s a shortened schedule.

“I should not be getting half of what I’m getting paid because the season’s cut in half, on top of a 33 percent cut of the half that’s already there. So I’m really getting like 25 percent,” Bell said during a Twitch stream on May 14.

Correa is clearly concerned about health, too. Though, again, he struck a different tone than Bell.

“Honestly, I just want to get back to play baseball and find the best options to get us back out there,” he said. “I want MLB to make sure we’re going to be take care of, that we’re going to follow the health protocols, that our families and us players are going to be healthy during this process.”

MLB is hoping to resume play in the beginning of July, but the league and the players union have encountered issues in coming to an agreement on how the league should organize health-focused protocols while structuring an adjusted schedule and agreeing to proper payment for players.

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New clip shows that the Astros’ sign-stealing tactics also occurred during the 2018 season

It wasn’t just 2017.

When former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers went on the record to The Athletic that the Astros used technology to steal signs in 2017, much of the focus remained on that 2017 World Series season.

But if newly uncovered video clips are any indication, MLB will have to expand its investigation to cover seasons beyond 2017. Those same tactics described by Fiers — using an outfield camera and hitting a bat against a dugout trashcan to signal an off-speed pitch — were evident in 2018.

A recent article from The Kansas City Star looked to find examples of these sign-stealing tactics taking place during past Royals-Astros games. While the paper did point to a 2017 example that seemed to implicate newly named Mets manager Carlos Beltran (though the video had poor audio), the story’s most damning example didn’t come in 2017. It was from the 2018 season.

A clip from the June 22, 2018 matchup at Minute Maid Park showed Carlos Correa hitting a second-inning double off a changeup from pitcher Danny Duffy.

Once the Royals signaled for a changeup, that same banging noise from other clips was audible on the broadcast. Correa was sitting on that off-speed pitch and hit a double with a 98.5 mph exit velocity off the bat.

Fiers last played for the Astros in 2017, which would explain why his accusation only covered that season. But it’s plainly obvious that the Astros didn’t just stop with that one season. Those tactics carried into the following year.

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