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Carlos Correa’s Implausible Journey Ends Back in Minnesota

An off-season of three contract agreements, all in the hundreds of millions of dollars, finished as he was reintroduced by the Twins.

Twice it appeared as though Carlos Correa had left the Twins this off-season, but Derek Falvey, Minnesota’s president of baseball operations, was able to bring him back on a complicated six-year contract.Credit...Abbie Parr/Associated Press

It was free agency disguised as a teen-drama series: hookups and breakups, jilted suitors, broken promises, whirlwind courtships on both coasts. The saga of Carlos Correa’s next contract seemed so implausible — deals with three teams, each worth hundreds of millions of dollars, all in a 30-day span — that it must have been fiction.