Carlos Correa is officially a Minnesota Twin. The rollercoaster ride is over, but where does the organization go from here?

The Twins’ offense improved significantly the second Correa signed a 6-year deal with Minnesota. Before the breaking news, Kyle Farmer was likely the starting shortstop. He’s a fine player, but he’s not changing the trajectory of the team.

It was likely he would have been the stopgap option before Royce Lewis or Brooks Lee were ready to go, but now the Twins will be starting a perennial MVP-caliber player at short.

Minnesota still needs to add one more bat to the lineup, but they will survive if they don’t. If they were to sign someone, it should be Trey Mancini, Andrew McCutchen or Jurickson Profar.

Where the team likely makes the biggest change is through the trade market. They need to improve their starting rotation and bullpen. Last season, the Twins were snakebitten by injuries, and they also don’t have a clear-cut No. 1 SP on the roster.

We’ll likely see Max Kepler get traded because he hasn’t given the team much offensively, and they signed Joey Gallo to a one-year deal. Kepler has value, but realistically speaking, he’s probably only going to bring back a reliever or a decent prospect (not a high-profile name).

One of the best assets on the roster is Luis Arraez. I don’t want to see him get traded, but if you want to improve the starting rotation, then that is the route they have to go.

Arraez is young, under team control until 2026, and is coming off the best season of his career, where he won the AL Batting Title and was voted into his first All-Star Game. Why would you want to trade someone like that?

The logical answer is that you could move him (with a prospect or two) and bring back a No. 1 starting pitcher. It’s tough to give him everyday ABs when you have Correa, Farmer, José Miranda, Alex Kirilloff, Jorge Polanco, Nick Gordon, and eventually Lewis and Lee.

Arraez is better than most of the guys I just listed, but to get something, you have to give something.

Correa improved the team drastically, and the Twins owe it to him and Byron Buxton to put together a contending team. The chances of Arraez and Kepler getting traded are high, and the realistic way to improve this roster is through the trade market.