{"id":798777,"date":"2018-03-10T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=798261"},"modified":"2018-03-10T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:00:55","slug":"carlos-gonzalez-gets-another-shot-with-the-colorado-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/carlos-gonzalez-gets-another-shot-with-the-colorado-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Gonzalez Gets Another Shot With the Colorado Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"
A lot can change over the course of a year — just ask outfielder Carlos Gonzalez<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before the 2017 season got underway, the Colorado Rockies offered their longtime player an extension that could’ve been worth up to\u00a0three years and $45 million<\/a>\u00a0in an attempt to have him forgo free agency the upcoming winter. He rejected it, instead opting to play out the final season of a seven-year, $80 million deal.<\/p>\n Fast-forward to a year later, and the veteran is just now reportedly finding a home for 2018 after agreeing to a one-year, $8 million<\/a> contract to return to the Rockies. The historically slow free-agent market certainly played a role in CarGo staying unemployed for this long, but he didn’t do himself any favors with what turned out to be one of the worst years of his career.<\/p>\n Among the 144 hitters that qualified for the batting title this past year, only nine posted an fWAR worse<\/a> than Gonzalez’s mark of -0.2. For a player that’s produced 22.9 fWAR since debuting in 2008 thanks to seven different performances of 2.0-plus fWAR, this was certainly unfamiliar territory for him.<\/p>\n After an injury-plagued and unproductive 2014 campaign in which he posted an 83 wRC+ and -0.5 fWAR in 281 plate appearances (70 games played), CarGo bounced back with a 40-homer campaign the following year. The problem is that the 32-year-old has seen his numbers continually slide since.<\/p>\nBad Timing<\/h3>\n