{"id":9943,"date":"2018-03-09T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:18:58","slug":"carlos-gonzalez-re-signs-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2018\/03\/09\/carlos-gonzalez-re-signs-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Gonzalez Re-Signs with Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gonzaca01,gonzal014car,gonzal026car&amp;search=Carlos+Gonzalez&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carlos Gonzalez<\/strong><\/a> signed a one-year deal with the Colorado Rockies.\u00a0The deal keeps him in purple through the 2018 season. The financials haven&#8217;t been announced, as the sides are still ironing out the final language.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: rockies and cargo are finalizing contract details. Talks now down to language details.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/972118217224155141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, 32,\u00a0played in 136 games this season. He had hit .262\/.339\/.423, the left-handed hitter had 14 homers, drove in 57 runs, 34 doubles, was walked 56 times, and struck out 119 times.<\/p>\n<h2>Carlos Gonzalez Re-Signs with Rockies<\/h2>\n<p>Carlos Gonzalez had a WAR of -0.2 this season and has a WAR of 24.0 throughout his career. This season saw Gonzalez&#8217;s numbers decline, especially his power numbers. The last couple of seasons, he hit 40 homers in 2015 and 25 during the 2016 season. Gonzalez also had a drastic drop in the number of runs he drove in this season. This year marked the first time since 2014 (he only played 70 games) that he didn&#8217;t drive in 70 or more runs. He has driven in 70 or more runs since the 2010 season, outside of his 2014 campaign and this season.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez&#8217;s speed has decreased recently. From the 2009-2013 season, he would have 15 or more stolen bases. Since the 2014 season, Gonzalez has had a maximum of three stolen bases in a season, accomplishing that twice (during the 2014 and 2017 seasons).<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez has spent 10 seasons in the majors. Nine of those seasons are with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/colorado-rockies\/?doing_wp_cron=1510871705.8873820304870605468750\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>, and one season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/oakland-athletics\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Athletics<\/a>. The left-handed ballplayer has hit .288\/.346\/.511 through 1,200 career games. Gonzalez has hit 267 doubles, 36 triples, 215 home runs, has driven in 711 runs, has swiped 117 bases, has drawn a walk 393 times, and has struck out 1,075 times in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez made his debut on May 30, 2008, with the Oakland Athletics. He was traded to Colorado with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/streehu01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huston Street<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithgr02,smithgr01&amp;search=Greg+Smith&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Smith<\/a><\/strong> for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hollima01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Holliday<\/a><\/strong> during November in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is a three-time All-Star, making the team in 2012,2013, and 2016. He has won the Gold Glove Award three times, winning it in 2010, 2012, and 2013. The 6&#8217;1 lefty has also won the Silver Slugger award twice, earning the honor during the 2010 and 2015 seasons. Gonzalez lastly was the National League Batting Champion for the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez finished third in the voting for NL MVP during the 2010 season behind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pujolal01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert Pujols<\/a><\/strong> and winner, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vottojo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Votto<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, Gonzalez hit for the cycle on July 31, 2010, and hit a walk-off homer on the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the 9th inning. He became the first player since <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/evansdw01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwight Evans<\/a><\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/boston-red-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> in 1984 to hit a walk-off home run to complete the cycle. Only five players in major league baseball history had completed the cycle by hitting a game-ending homer.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"5lgPA-j3QPVbiF5k4swdBw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/850923828\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'5lgPA-j3QPVbiF5k4swdBw',sig:'oRBIt8z51Cuf-26R3ys0DdFPjrsw4T8SnEd-r5OWCiM=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'850923828',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, free agent Carlos Gonzalez signed a one-year deal with the Colorado Rockies.\u00a0The deal keeps him in purple through the 2018 season. The financials haven&#8217;t been announced, as the sides are still ironing out the final language. Sources: rockies and cargo are finalizing contract details. Talks now down to language details. \u2014 Jon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1240,"featured_media":10013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Baseball Reference Linker is needed","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,32,2,35],"tags":[1766,697,106,941,69],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-rockies","category-featured","category-news","tag-baseaball","tag-carlos-gonzalez","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}