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Rockies Designate Chi Chi Gonzalez For Assignment

By Darragh McDonald | October 3, 2021 at 2:11pm CDT

The Rockies announced a few roster moves today, recalling right-handed pitchers Justin Lawrence and Antonio Santos, while optioning infielder Rio Ruiz and designating right-hander Chi Chi Gonzalez for assignment.

The Rockies non-tendered Gonzalez in the offseason and then re-signed him on a minor league deal just over a week later. He had his contract at the end of spring training and stayed a part of the staff until the last day of the season. In 24 games this season, 18 of them starts, he has logged 101 2/3 innings with an ERA of 6.46. That may be somewhat inflated by Gonzalez playing his home games in the most hitter-friendly park in the league, but his underlying metrics aren’t much better. His 12.5% strikeout rate is just barely half of the MLB average, which is 23.2%. His 6.3% walk rate is pretty solid though, considering the league average of 8.7%.

Based on that middling production and the fact that he had already been non-tendered by the club once, they were probably heading down the same path this winter. For the club, they decided to just move on now and use the last day of the season to give another look to some younger arms. Lawrence, 26, and Santos, 24, have each logged their fair share of miles shuttling between MLB and Triple-A this season, each one having been optioned six times. Lawrence has a bloated 8.64 ERA over 16 2/3 MLB innings this season, but a much more palatable 4.73 ERA in 32 1/3 Triple-A innings. Santos is somehow the reverse, with an MLB ERA of 4.76 in 11 1.3 innings but a Triple-A ERA of 7.94 in 45 1/3 innings.

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  1. CravenMoorehead

    4 years ago

    Chi Chi

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  2. anthonyd4412

    4 years ago

    Les Nessman: Cheye Cheye Gonzaleez

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    • Special Agent

      4 years ago

      His Chi Chi Rodriguez pronunciation was classic. I might have to go look it up for another laugh.

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  3. tstats

    4 years ago

    BOOOOOOOOO

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  4. hiflew

    4 years ago

    Chi Chi was better than the numbers say most of the time. Much better than Justin Lawrence especially. That guy is just not good and Santos is not much better. That being said, Chi Chi is not really a major league starting pitcher. Might be an okay bullpen conversion for someone, but even that seems unlikely at this point..

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  5. Monkey’s Uncle

    4 years ago

    I see his name, I can’t help but think of Chi Chi Rodriguez and his swashbuckling sword celebration whenever he sank a long putt.

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    • Special Agent

      4 years ago

      That was awesome.

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    • retire21

      4 years ago

      The Sabre Dance!

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  6. Arnold Ziffel

    4 years ago

    I hope he catches on somewhere, hLes Nessman needs him.

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