He's the youngest player in baseball, but he doesn't sound like it.
"Every single day I go out there, I try to get better," Carlos Correa told me recently. That's something you might hear from any player, young or old. But in Correa's case, any credit of his improvement is often deflected toward someone else. Everything comes back to the people that have helped him and taught him and played with him. When asked of the adjustments he has made as a hitter, Correa said, "Well, the hitting coaches here have helped me a lot."
He is all of 20 years old, and already Correa is in the conversation for the best shortstop in baseball. Of course he has great natural talent -- most big leaguers do -- but it's that maturity, that self-awareness, that openness to learn from anyone and everyone around him ... that is what has made Correa so good at such a young age.
But there's more to it than that. Like every major leaguer, he has had to make adjustments as he has developed, and there are certain things he must work on every single day to stay on top of his game.
With that, here are the three secrets to Carlos Correa's success, directly from the player himself.