When will Machado and Harper sign?

fangraphs and baseball reference seem to value correa very differently. by fWAR he's at 30.1 right now.

dunno. at any rate, i think assuming that he'll put up 5+ WAR for both 2023 and 2024 is a lot to assume. maybe for Trout. Correa's great when he's on the field, but the biggest contributor to hall of fame / WAR stuff is longevity and staying on the field.

the JAWS average for shortstops is 55.4. a couple modern SS's that topped that were jeter and larkin, a couple who didn't quite make it were garciaparra and jimmy rollins. this is switching to fWAR, but here are a couple comparisons of these players:

https://i.imgur.com/Uty9rff.png

https://i.imgur.com/Y6mVheX.png

larkin and jeter made it because they kept going strong through their early to mid thirties. that's the gauntlet

never even remotely though of Correa as a HOF'or before.

I definitely did early on, then he hit some bumps. Getting hurt in 2017 may have cost him an MVP. I think he's on track, though--with the unknown of how the sign-stealing story will be viewed down the road.

This is Mookie Betts' age-29 season: 56.1 and counting.