Yankees' insanely active deadline might've distracted fans from hellish rival trade

When the dust settled, the New York Yankees emerged as one of the biggest winners at the 2025 trade deadline. Brian Cashman got the action started last week, and he took it all the way up to the buzzer on Thursday. Epic performance.

But ... some folks might've missed another blockbuster that went down between two AL teams. The Minnesota Twins, who orchestrated one of the most drastic fire sales in recent memory, traded one of the Yankees' biggest enemies. And one of their customers was the Houston Astros.

Houston GM Dana Brown had his work cut out for him at this deadline, given all of the Astros' problems. And he accomplished whatever he set out to do. Not only did he bring in Marlins outfielder Jesus Sanchez and Orioles infielder Ramon Urias to address mounting injuries, he also brought in ... franchise icon Carlos Correa.

You've simply gotta be kidding. Correa murdered the Yankees during his time in Houston, and now he's getting a second lease on life as he returns to his former team. He was withering away with the struggling Twins in 2025, and will now play third base for the AL West leaders.

Correa voiced his excitement to return to where it all began and where he accomplished all of his winning. You can sense how ready he is to go on a revenge tour now that he's back to being with a relevant squad. And unfortunately that is bad news for the Yankees down the road.

Yankees Trade Deadline: Carlos Correa returns to Astros in scary move

With Isaac Paredes going down for the year with a torn hamstring, the Astros just upgraded to Correa and will have Urias as the depth infield. Brown really couldn't do much better than that (and he got the Twins to send over some money to cover the remaining $104 million on Correa's deal).

In 50 career games against the Yankees, Correa is hitting .284 with a .910 OPS, 14 homers and 38 RBI. Correa in the postseason? .282 average, .860 OPS, 18 homers and 63 RBI across 85 games (14 of which have come against the Yankees). And he's only gotten the playoff itch scratched once since 2022. He couldn't be more geared up for primetime.

One can only hope the Yankees' fleet of pitching additions can contain Correa if these two teams meet in the postseason because we cannot have a repeat of 2017 or 2019 with the declining version of the 30-year-old veteran.