Former All-Star Scooter Gennett rips MLB, Carlos Correa in tweet
Former MLB All-Star Scooter Gennett ripped Major League Baseball and former Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa in a tweet on Monday.
Gennett, the 31-year-old former second baseman, last played in the majors in 2019, when he split the season between the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants. In a tweet on Monday, the 2018 All-Star criticized MLB for letting a “cheater” be able to get $300 million in free agency.
@mlb about to let a cheater who shouldn’t be playing baseball get a 300 million dollar contract. The big leagues is broken. And people wonder why I’d rather be at home then in a big league stadium. If he had a soul he’d give all 300 million to all the players careers he ruined.
— Scooter Gennett (@Sgennett2) November 21, 2021
Former MLB All-Star Scooter Gennett ripped MLB and Carlos Correa in a tweet
In the tweet, Scooter Gennett said that he believes that the big leagues are “broken” and he signaled that he won’t be returning to the majors any time soon because he would “rather be at home then (sic) in a big-league stadium.” Gennett, who didn’t call Carlos Correa out by name but he was obviously talking about him, said that if Correa “had a soul(,) he’d give all 300 million to all the players(‘) careers he ruined.”
That is something that is not often mentioned with the Houston Astros cheating scandal or with other scars in baseball (like the 1994-1995 MLB Strike). With the Astros were cheating by stealing signs, some of their players performed better than they should have. As a result, they got more in free agency or in arbitration, which hurt the salary of some players or, in the case of some, completely out of the majors.
Former MLB pitcher Mike Bolsinger, who spent part of four seasons in MLB, including two with the Los Angeles Dodgers and one with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2017, filed a civil suit in 2020 against the Houston Astros for the cheating scandal.
Bolsinger, now 33, faced the Astros in his final MLB appearance on August 4, 2017. In 1/3 of an inning, Bolsinger allowed four runs and walked three. Bolsinger told USA Today that he believes that he thought at the time that they knew what was coming. Per some fan sleuthing on Sign Stealing Scandal, the highest amount of trash can hits heard on television was 54. The game that had that number: August 4, 2017.
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Carlos Correa will most definitely get $300 million or more in free agency this offseason and while he showed that he can play well without the sign-stealing in 2021, there will always be some open wounds, especially for the players whose careers and livelihoods were impacted by it.