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Marlins Outright Erik Gonzalez

By Steve Adams | July 6, 2022 at 8:38am CDT

Infielder Erik Gonzalez cleared outright waivers following last week’s DFA and has been assigned to the Marlins’ Triple-A affiliate in Jacksonville, per the team’s transactions log at MLB.com. Gonzalez, who was designated for assignment last week when the Marlins selected the contract of veteran center fielder Billy Hamilton, has enough service time to reject the assignment and elect free agency if he chooses.

The 30-year-old Gonzalez has had a pair of stints with Miami this season, hitting at a combined .189/.268/.216 clip in a tiny sample of 41 plate appearances. He entered the 2022 season with a more palatable, albeit still well below-average, career batting line of .245/.276/.345 (853 plate appearances).

Miami is the third big league stop of Gonzalez’s seven-year big league career. He’s previously spent time in Cleveland and in Pittsburgh but has primarily filled a utility role. The versatile infielder has never topped 81 games played or 229 plate appearances in a single Major League season.

Along the way, Gonzalez has appeared at all four infield positions and in all three outfield slots, although the vast majority of his time has been split between shortstop (781 innings), third base (655 innings) and second base (384 innings). Gonzalez has plus defensive ratings at all three of those positions per each of Defensive Runs Saved and Outs Above Average, with his work at third base, in particular, standing out (13 DRS, 4 OAA).

The right-handed-hitting Gonzalez opened the year with a .339/.376/.431 showing through 186 plate appearances in Triple-A. He’s a career .268/.308/.396 hitter in just over 1200 plate appearances at that level.

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  1. TheMan 3

    3 years ago

    not surprising that no team wants Gonzalez. Thankfully the Pirates aren’t desperate this year

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    • Cosmo2

      3 years ago

      I can’t believe he’s stuck around this long. He is absolutely awful.

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  2. Col_chestbridge

    3 years ago

    Never forget that Cleveland had to make a choice between him and Giovanny Urshela, and choose Gonzalez.

    Although in fairness to Ursh, with Jose at 3B there was never really going to be an opening at 3B ever for Ursh. It really was best that he got to move on.

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  3. aragon

    3 years ago

    Minasian on line 1!

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  4. Fire Krall

    3 years ago

    give him 150 games 500 abs..you won’t truly know what if??

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    • Texas Outlaw

      3 years ago

      Agree. He could win a GG at 3rd, hell maybe even short. And with enough abs, you might get a 260-10-50 line out of him. He could really help a team with a young pitching staff.

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      • Cosmo2

        3 years ago

        What? Is this for real? I thought for sure the original post was sarcastic. It has to be. If you can’t evaluate Gonzalez as a bad player at this point, you just can’t evaluate.

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  5. MarlinsFanBase

    3 years ago

    Is Erik Gonzalez our new Deven Marrero for this year?

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    • MarlinsFrontOffice

      3 years ago

      How many accounts does this imposter have? You know nothing of the Marlins or our fan base. Move along troll.

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      • MarlinsFanBase

        3 years ago

        You’re not fooling anyone @MetsFan22.

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        • You Can Put It In The Books

          3 years ago

          How’d you like Nimmo’s numbers last week, you fool!

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