Carlos Gonzalez

probably impatient and took a risk with holliday.
they put put hope in their lesser upside OFs cunningham/buck/sweeney and their next tier OFs brown/sulentic/doolittle/spencer/desme etc

i dont know whats the issue but they have a problem developing athletic, raw talents: traded cargon, traded robnett(who didnt progress as expected), released javier hererra recently, jermaine mitchell (stuck in his 2nd yr of high A stockton)…hopefully this pattern ends with rashun dixon (but he’s 17/18 so who knows)

it’s very possible he’s turning a corner this year. There’s never much to dislike about Carlos tools-wise, but his approach at the plate has held him back. He’s got a quick line drive swing and good power potential, so if he can keep his BB:K in the range it is now, he’s primed for a breakout.

is that he’s playing half his games in Colorado Springs, which makes Coors seem like a pitcher’s wet dream. He’s still hitting well on the road, but his home OPS is 245 points higher than his road OPS.

with his walk rate. Haven’t been following, but maybe that’s a sign that things have changed for him. Granted, as noted, it is Colorado Springs, so let’s not read too much into the offensive numbers.

A few people have noted the help that he’s getting from his home park in Colorado Springs, and they’re absolutely correct. It’s also true that Gonzalez has an unusually high BABIP this year that he will probably not sustain. Besides those two things, however, his isolated power and walk rate have dramatically increased and his strikeout rate has tumbled.

If you look closely at his power breakdown, however, it’s apparent that his homer rate is generally in line with his previous minor league stats. His doubles rate has spiked, but not enough to get his isolated power to the exceptionally high level that it is now. What has done that is his 5 triples in only 154 ABs, after getting 5 total over the past two years, and 975 ABs. I’m not sure if that’s sustainable or not, but though he does seem to have become substantially better, with all of the odd things happening (park, BABIP, triple-spike), I’d like to wait and see before saying just how much better he has gotten.