Stepping aside from my more recent topic. On Monday morning March 13, Carlos Gonzalez agreed to stay with the Colorado Rockies for a 1-year deal worth $8 million staying as their primary right fielder. CarGo had an upsetting offseason hoping to achieve a multi-year deal with any team preferably a contender, but no offers came his way due to his disappointing 2017 campaign and for the idea of his performance is only magnitude due to playing at Coors Field. Carlos decided to come home realizing that this was the best choice if we wants to be apart of a playoff caliber team and to bounce back from last season. CarGo struggled for the majority of 2017 batting .262 with 14 home runs and 57 rbi's in 136 games which are all lows for his expectations. What Carlos struggles with season to season is staying healthy but not in 2017. Carlos had sleeping problems majority of the year with a simple problem with his swing rolling over his wrist losing his bat speed, power, and made him more impatient at the plate. It did take until the end of the season when Carlos watched future Hall of Famer Miguel Cabrera hit and realized what adjustments he had to make with his swing. Once he made the adjustments with his wrists, got more hours of sleep and get out of his head he was able to excel for the last 2 months of the season. He batted .279 in August and .377 with 6 home runs in September helping Colorado push there way to the playoffs since 2009. He hit close to half of his home runs just in the month of September which isn't a surprise for how hot CarGo can get once he get's in his groove. It's a surprise that no one took a chance with CarGo for only a season ago batting .298 with 25 home runs and 100 rbi's and the season before that hitting 40 bombs and 97 steaks. To some people thinking that this deal was bad for the Rockies think again. They got CarGo on an club friendly contract with him being an All-Star caliber player who has been known in past seasons as one of the best offensive players in the game and having one of the smoothest swings in the game. Even with the outfield staying congested for another season pushing top prospect David Dahl and outgoing platoon player Raimel Tapia back in the minors or to the bench plus making Bud Blacks job more difficult in using Desmond and Parra doesn't change how valuable Carlos Gonzalez has been and will be to the club. The only problem with CarGo is his health hitting the injury bug multiple times in his career and if his sleeping problems come back this year. Besides those two problems we can see CarGo having a huge bounce back year. Carlos is entering 2018 at the age of 32 still in the prime of his career and ready to show the league that he is the CarGo from the last 2 months of the seasons then the season total. With rejoining one of the most explosive lineups in the league with rising star (SS) Trevor Story, All- Star (2B) DJ LeMahieu and MVP candidates (CF) Charlie Blackmon and (3B) Nolan Arenado who's the new face of the Rockies will help generate a lot more oppurtunities for CarGo to bump up his stats. Also with being in Colorado a hitters perfect dream and pitchers nightmare will help get a couple more balls over the fence for Carlos as well. If Carlos is healthy and back to his normal form we can see him play 130-155 games batting .275-.300 with 30-45 home runs, and 95-125 rbi's. I wouldn't sleep on CarGo if I were you because he did that enough last year and ready for 2018 to be his best season yet. Glad to see you back CarGo.
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