Chris Carter is headed to Minnesota.

The Twins have acquired the slugging first baseman-outfielder from the Angels for cash considerations in a minor-league trade, Minnesota announced Tuesday.

The 2016 National League home run leader, Carter smashed a league-high 41 home runs with the Brewers while batting .222 that year. He last played in the majors with the Yankees last July, finishing the season hitting .201 with eight home runs in 62 games for New York.

Carter, 31, batted .255 with 13 home runs and 43 RBIs in 38 games for the Angels’ Triple-A Salt Lake affiliate this season.

He’s 21 years old. It’s OK that he’s not perfect yet. And another thing his teammates wanted to talk about: He’s allowed only 13 hits in those 22 innings — 11 singles and two doubles. Opponents are making contact, yes, but not solid contact.

Put it like this: He’s gonna throw the ball in the middle, and it ends up at the knees, first baseman Jose Martinez told SN. When it moves, you’ve got to change your angle. That’s why he’s getting weak contact and ground balls all the time. For me, if he goes out there and it’s 10 ground balls every time, that’s perfect. Don’t worry about the strikeouts. Go out there and throw it in the middle. Pena sets up in the middle, and that ball’s gonna move, 100 percent. That guy’s nasty. He’s going to be good, and I’m glad he’s going to be around.

The sink on Hicks’ fastball is creating lots of balls on the ground for his fielders to handle. Of the past 19 balls opponents have put in play, only four have been in the air.

When you’re facing 105 with sink, that is not fun at all, Martinez said.

It is fun to watch, though.

On Thursday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the NFL was planning to suspend Winston for the first three games of the 2018 season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy in relation to the allegation. The NFL had no comment Friday.

The female Uber driver — who has only ever been identified as Kate — did not go public with the allegation that Winston grabbed her crotch during the Uber ride until last fall, when she told BuzzFeed News that she wanted to tell the truth about a powerful man who felt entitled to my body when all I wanted to do was my job. She did, however, file a formal complaint about Winston to Uber soon after the ride. She ended that complaint by stating, He is NOT safe for other drivers, according to the BuzzFeed News story. Winston’s Uber-riding privileges were revoked, but Winston did not notify the league of the complaint against him.

The woman has not filed a police report to date, and her attorney, John Clune, said Thursday that he did not have any comment about the NFL’s decision or what steps the woman might take next.

The Chicago Bears signed veteran tackle Matt McCants just three weeks ago after a tryout with the team during rookie mini-camp.

The language of the rule now reads that a ball is caught when the player has control, two feet or another body part down, and makes a football move while making no mention of completing the process.

Like I say, it just took them seven years to figure out what we knew on Day 1, Johnson said, via the Detroit Free Press. … I think you [have to take the human element] into account. Yeah, slow motion can show every bitty frame, but you have to also take into account what actually happened in real time, I feel like. You take it slow mo and that easy catch can turn into, ‘Dang, he bobbled it a little bit.’

Walker believes that he — not Rob Gronkowski or Travis Kelce — is the best tight end in football.

Honestly, I feel like I’m the best tight end in the league in all phases, Walker said, via the Tennessean. Blocking, run blocking, catching the ball, breaking tackles, stuff like that. At the end of the day, if you don’t feel like that you shouldn’t be in the league.

Walker said he’s been focused this offseason on his conditioning and believes he’s primed for a big season at age 34.

Every year I try something new, Walker said. I don’t eat pork, I don’t drink alcohol. That’s been helping me, keeping me fit and in shape. Just go out here and I try to bust my butt every day in the weight room, on the field, and it’s tended to work so I’m going to stick to that regimen.

He’ll need to have a big season, to match his big talk.

Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich wants to have an actual conversation about the national anthem with President Donald Trump.

Herzlich is a member of the NFLPA’s executive committee, and has met with league officials on such topics before, at least before the league enacted a unilateral compromise which declared that any player on the field had to stand for the anthem, while allowing players the option to stay in the locker room.

Trump followed up by saying that players who knelt during the anthem shouldn’t be in the country, which has only fanned the flames.

Jim has excellent interpersonal skills required to establish trusted contacts at universities and across the agent community and has a strong team, goal and action-oriented approach he developed at the most competitive level of football, Cooper said in a statement.

Nagy will be joined on the staff by former Mississippi State head coach and longtime NFL assistant Sylvester Croom. Croom has been named the senior vice president of operations.

Perhaps as a direct result, Giants coach Pat Shurmur said he wanted to wait to discuss the new policy with his players.

We have not discussed it as a team, Shurmur said. We’re gonna sort of let it settle for a little bit here. It’s like any new rule, it’s a new policy, and I certainly trust that our players are going to do the right thing. And I think we just let it settle for a minute. At some point we’ll discuss it, but we just haven’t done it yet.

As Panthers wide receiver Torrey Smith mentioned earlier in the day, Herzlich said he’d prefer the focus to remain on work being done by players in the community, rather than any symbolic action during the anthem.