Michael Inoa is no Ramser Correa

by Adam J. Morris on Jul 21, 2008 1:30 PM CDT Comment 21 comments

So, following Neftali Feliz's outing the other night got me thinking about Eddie Correa (who was Feliz's age in 1986 when Bobby V. destroyed his arm).

And I started thinking about Eddie's brother Ramser Correa, who I primarily remember because he had some ridiculous bonus demands and never panned out.

Poking around, I stumbled across this item from SI from 1987:

Ramser Correa, the 16-year-old brother of Ranger pitcher Edwin Correa, says he will sign for nothing less than $225,000, plus a promise that he not be asked to pitch between sundown Fridays and sundown Saturdays (he's a Seventh-Day Adventist), plus a guaranteed major league contract by 1990, plus an invitation to major league spring training next February, plus a $7,500 bonus for making the big leagues, plus four round-trip plane tickets from Puerto Rico to a destination on the mainland annually for five years, plus an '87 black Corvette for himself and a Cutlass Supreme for his father....

$225K was a lot of money back then.

Also, Ramser is a pretty cool name. If Bethany and I have another son, I think we'll name him Ramser.

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I'm sure

Bethany will be all over that idea.

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by DJCahill on Jul 21, 2008 1:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice find. What I want to know is whether all of his contract demands (the $225,000, the big league contract, the Corvette, the Cutlass Supreme) were all related to him being a Seventh Day Adventist, or just the “I don’t roll on Shabbas” thing.

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by trza on Jul 21, 2008 1:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Any news on the grievence about the Iona signing?

I’d like to see the A’s lose a draft pick or two.

by mattrpav on Jul 21, 2008 1:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ramser Correa Morris...

How sweet.

I met Correa back in the day. He came in into our piano store to….you guessed it….. buy a piano. It was about a week after he had choked on a fish bone and of course my bratty kid self had to ask him about it…

Other than that i got nothin.

by Kevin McBrayer on Jul 21, 2008 1:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

A Cutlass Supreme... that's high rolling right there.

This is a 1987 Cutlass Supreme.

I’m sure you can pass off the whole “Ramser” name idea as something Ben cooked up when he was drunk or something. Just hope Bethany doesn’t read this post.

by Inkara1 on Jul 21, 2008 1:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

probably the deal breaker

by texasraider on Jul 21, 2008 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Inoa might be able to buy a Cultass Supreme with his bonus.

How far along did Ramser get back in his day?

Go Rangers!

by rooster on Jul 21, 2008 2:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

AJM

I would like a similar contract from you or I’ll stop visiting this blog…

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by Agreen07 on Jul 21, 2008 2:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

JC

has part 2 of his Minor League Mailbag up.

by coolaid on Jul 21, 2008 2:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Much good reading in there

about Holland, Castillo, Alfonzo, Moreland, Greene, and the much improved LHP situation.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 21, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

yup.

Didn’t know JC was so high on Holland. He has Kiker ahead of Holland which is very surprising to me but obviously he has seen Holland pitch in person.

by coolaid on Jul 21, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I haven't seen Kiker but Holland sure did look impressive to me.

by Inkara1 on Jul 21, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sure that

everyone has considered this, but when the outlandish scouting oriented comments started coming from Goldstein and Hindman a few weeks ago on Holland, the first thing that flashed in my head was that this was going to be one of those crazy baseball draft situations where the 600th rounder is already a superior prospect to the high 1st rounder within a couple of years and before they’re out of A-ball. At least in this case it’s more that the low pick has had a breakthrough than that the high pick is a lost cause.

by Brett Perryman on Jul 21, 2008 3:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Whatever happened to Salcedo from last year?

I know there were age-fixing allegations, but did he ever sign?

He was asking Inoa type money.

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by thedirkatron on Jul 21, 2008 3:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think he has

This looks like it could be the little talked about Matt Harrington result when agents like Boras (and I know that Boras wasn’t Harrington’s agent when he first asked for a crazy contract) play games of chicken. Waiting teams out works great when the guy you are representing is so good that there is basically no chance that he won’t eventually get his money. But when he’s a volatile 16 year old, might want to play it a little closer to the vest than they did on this one.

by Brett Perryman on Jul 21, 2008 3:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

Poor kid.

I hope we get a deliciously engrossing tell-all article about the Salcedo debacle tantamount to the one we got about the Matt Harrington flustercluck.

That was god reading.

Tanzer was a psycho and an idiot. But mostly a psycho.

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by thedirkatron on Jul 22, 2008 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I mean

it’s like he’s all washed up or anything, but his status has already slipped with some people saying that he wasn’t really all that to begin with, and I can’t imagine that time is helping him at this point. But it’s not like Harrington, where he threw 95 at one point, then mid 80s a couple of years later.

by Brett Perryman on Jul 22, 2008 12:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hillarious.

Go Strangers.

by hightowersmith on Jul 21, 2008 3:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ramser

Works better as a last name. First name Richard.

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by Brian Thomas on Jul 21, 2008 3:39 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

“Cutlass Morris, Supreme” isnt a bad name. Tell Bethany the “Supreme” is a postnominal honorific like “Esquire.” That might allow you to slip it by her.

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by shroomer on Jul 21, 2008 3:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs