Machado and former Padres star were similar in several respects. There's no comparing the Padres' economics of the two eras.
In many respects, Manny Machado is the Adrian Gonzalez of his Padres generation — smooth, both as a corner infielder and with the bat, powerful from foul pole to foul pole, fluent in Spanish and English and passionate about baseball.The answer is that Padres lacked the chops to make the most of Gonzalez. The lesson, class, is this: Team ownership matters.
Gonzalez was a build-around player who brought an extra dimension, having grown up in Tijuana and Chula Vista. It is obvious that if Seidler had owned the Padres in 2006, when Kevin Towers got the 23-year-old first baseman from the Rangers, he would’ve signed Gonzalez to a lengthy deal before 2010 and obtained other stars to assist him.
Though a neck injury would erode his game in his mid-30s, Gonzalez didn’t go onto the disabled list until his 14th season and amassed 27.8 win shares in the six seasons between 2010-15, per Baseball-Reference.com. He logged 150 games in seven different seasons, despite also playing winter ball some years.
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