It sucks to be Carlos Correa right now: ‘I’d boo myself too’

In one version of this baseball season, Carlos Correa is in Year 1 of a $315 million contract to play in New York, soaking up the adulation of the Citi Field crowd and propping up a Mets offense that could surely use a boost.

In real life, Correa is employed in the not-so-hotbed of Minneapolis, taking a $115 million haircut on the six-year, $200 million deal he wound up signing after a long free-agency saga and getting booed by Twins fans while putting up a .185 batting average and miserable .624 OPS.

“I’d boo myself too with the amount of money I’m making, if I’m playing like that,” Correa said Tuesday night after going 0-for-5 with two strikeouts in a 6-1 loss to the Padres.

“Obviously, [the boos are] acceptable. It’s part of the game, part of sports. Fans want production, and fans want a team that’s going to compete out there and win games. It’s to be expected when you play poorly.”

Back on Dec. 21, the Mets struck a jaw-dropping, middle-of-the-night agreement to sign Correa for $315 million over 12 years to be their third baseman after a deal after his $350 million deal with the Giants fell through.

“We needed one more thing, and this is it,” Mets owner Steve Cohen told The Post’s Jon Heyman that night.

But the Mets ultimately did not finalize the megadeal after flagging the same lower right leg issue that had scuttled the Giants pact, and Correa returned to the Twins, for whom he put up a monster 5.5 WAR season in 2022.

The encore has been a disaster in the early going.

Correa, 28, a two-time All-Star and MVP candidate with the sign-stealing Astros from 2015-2021, has 11 extra-base hits and 30 strikeouts in 32 games.

“I trust the player and I trust our coaching staff to be able to work through this. We have a lot of baseball to play, and Carlos has great perspective. He knows that. He understands that,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Adding stress to a situation never works. Adding ideas to a situation and adding some patience for yourself and some ways to actually calm down probably work better than anything else, and I think he knows that.”

The Twins have lost three in a row to fall to 19-17, still good enough for first place in the AL Central.