Michael Inoa is no Ramser Correa
by Adam J. Morris
on Jul 21, 2008 1:30 PM CDT
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.
"And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago." -John McCain
by DJCahill on Jul 21, 2008 1:32 PM CDT 0 recs
wow
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 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 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 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 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 0 recs
AJM
I would like a similar contract from you or I’ll stop visiting this blog…
"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005
by Agreen07 on Jul 21, 2008 2:22 PM CDT 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
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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
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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 zywica on
Jul 21, 2008 3:57 PM CDT
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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.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Jul 21, 2008 3:19 PM CDT 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 zywica on
Jul 21, 2008 3:54 PM CDT
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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.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on
Jul 22, 2008 12:11 AM CDT
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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 zywica on
Jul 22, 2008 12:36 AM CDT
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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 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.
by shroomer on Jul 21, 2008 3:49 PM CDT 0 recs
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