Twins Fans Scoop Up Clearance Apparel After Correa Re-Signs With Twins

When Correa turned down a 13-year contract with the Twins and subsequently signed deals with the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets (which both fell through), retailers slashed Correa Twins apparel prices for t-shirts, jerseys, and merchandise. But suddenly, when the news broke at 11:23 a.m. Tuesday that Correa was a Twin again, all that heavily-discounted Correa apparel became relevant again. Within minutes, Twitter was abuzz with this realization. 

I was at work when the news broke. Not to be deterred from a good deal, I commanded my brother, Matthew Berman, to run out to Eden Prairie Scheels to scour the sales racks during his lunch break and report back on his findings. 

Matthew, the only Twins fan crazy enough to get to even more games than I, hightailed it out to Scheels in search of some C4 bargains. He was in luck- Matthew found a Correa shirt emblazoned with “Land of 10,000 Rakes.” The tag displayed a list price of $22.99 with “was $31.99” right below it. He bought the last two shirts- one for me and one for him. The listed online price is back up to $31.99. 

While Matthew was there, he ran into several other fans who had also sprinted to Scheels with the same goal in mind, and he overheard a store employee say that she saw a fan leaving with four Correa jerseys earlier. Upon searching a little more, in all its Kasota Gold glory, he found the holy grail: an authentic red Correa jersey exactly in his size. The last one, too. There was no price tag on the jersey, and when Matthew asked for a price check, it rang up as $60. Jackpot. Too good to pass up, he bought it. Twins replica jerseys with the now-outdated branding are going for $135 on Scheel’s website and in-store. I got a screenshot shortly after the signing that shows a Kasota Gold navy Correa jersey going for $69.99, and now it's back to $135 like the others. Stores floors did not get the immediate memo for this price change, as evidenced by my brother's experience, 

While stuck at work, I checked online and found a Nike Women’s Navy Correa Jersey Shirt on clearance on the Dick’s Sporting Goods website for $8.97, down from $35. There was also a red youth Correa jersey shirt for $7.97, down from $30. On the MLB Shop website, I only found a white Correa “Big & Tall” replica jersey on sale for $47.99. When I went back and looked at the same jersey later in the day, it was back up to its full price of $119.99. 

After I left the office, I descended upon the Richfield Dicks Sporting Goods’ clearance racks like a vulture on Black Friday. I found a rack inside the main doors with around 30 navy Correa t-shirt jerseys on sale for $8.97, with an additional $25% off that. I bought one for myself, one for Matthew, one for a friend, and an extra one or two for good measure, all for the bargain price of $6.73 each after the discount. I saw a couple of other fans scouring the racks too, and one guy was calling his friends to get their sizes for t-shirt orders.

“You better grab these fast- they’re going to start pulling these from the shelves! They’re back to full price online,” one man hugging an arm full of shirts warned me. The staff at the store, busy helping other customers, gave no indication that they were about to do such a thing. The same shirt on the Dick’s Sporting Goods website is sold out, and other navy shirts of current players with the Kasota Gold branding, now-retired by the Twins, are going for full price. 

However, not everyone waited until the news broke to scoop up discounted Correa apparel: one Twins fan went viral on social media for having beaten everyone else to the punch. 

On December 14, the news broke that Correa had signed a 13-year contract with the Giants. Shayla, a Twins season ticket holder, ordered a white Correa jersey and a Correa t-shirt jersey in the new uniform branding style online from the MLB Shop on December 19. The jersey was around $45, and the t-shirt jersey was $15. Even though it seemed like Correa’s time in Minnesota was over, she bought the jerseys because she had such fond memories of the 2022 season and could not “believe we got to have him in our jersey.” And a little bit "just in case."

After the news broke Tuesday, Shayla tweeted about the Correa jersey she had bought, and Talkin Baseball, a baseball podcast by Jomboy Media, posted her tweet on its Instagram account.

As it turns out, Shayla will have a lot more use for her Correa jerseys from now on than just reliving happy former memories, and Correa will be in that Twins jersey for a long time. 

“I am so happy. Happy for us. Happy for the players. Happy that in addition to his on-the-field work, we get a great baseball mind and a wonderful leader.” Shayla said. “I had a hunch from the beginning that this wasn’t gonna be a one-year deal.”