From trades to free agents, MLB’s weirdest moves of the offseason

The Minnesota Twins shed salary to sign Carlos Correa

When Minnesota first traded off Mitch Garver to Texas for Isiah Kiner-Falefa, I thought it was a solid move. A very Twins-like move to get a shortstop on the low who will hopefully hit OK and still provide you some pretty good defense. Also to mention that he is pretty young, cheap and under team control for two seasons.

Then, just about two days later, the just-then-acquired Kiner-Falefa and Josh Donaldson are in a move to the New York Yankees that brought in some decent players in Gary Sanchez and Gio Urshela. Both of whom have had ups and downs in previous years, but more notably were a lot cheaper, roughly making a total of $14 million, a good bit lower in comparison to the outgoing Donaldson and IKF, which was about $28 million.

Then somehow we find out this was all done to clear extra salary to sign potential the top free agent that was on the market in Carlos Correa, completely out of nowhere.

One of the biggest reasons for this move being on here is that despite the Twins being more active signing free agents in recent history like the aforementioned Donaldson or even Nelson Cruz, they have never really gone out to sign the biggest names.

Also, we all assumed that a long-term deal would be in place for Correa, which is not what happened as he received a deal much like Trevor Bauer did last offseason.

Along with that, based on what the Twins situation looked like, no one really thought they would be of interest to a player like Correa, a player who is probably looking to try and win a World Series as fast as possible. Baseball is a weird sport though with so much relying on momentum and luck that, with the team they have and the moves they have made, there is definitely a way the Twins can win it all.

Just such an unexpected move that blew us all out the water.