Despite not suiting up in the MLB since 2018, former Dodger Adrian Gonzalez officially called it quits Saturday. The five-time All-Star finished his MLB career with 2,050 hits and 317 home runs, as well as four Gold Gloves and two Silver Sluggers.
Gonzalez’s MLB career began in 2000, when he was drafted first overall by the Miami Marlins out of high school in the 2000 MLB Draft. After a four-year stint in the minor leagues, and a trade sending him to the Texas Rangers, then another trade sending him to the San Diego Padres, Gonzalez would eventually end up getting his first substantial amount of playing time with his hometown Padres in 2006.
The Padres shocked the MLB world in 2011 when they sent Gonzalez to the Boston Red Sox, in exchange for a haul of minor league prospects. He promptly signed a seven-year extension with Boston, worth $154 million. That wouldn’t last long however, as despite an impressive performance with the team , he was sent to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012, one of the most memorable salary-dump trades in recent MLB history, along with Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto.Gonzalez would continue to flourish with the Boys in Blue, especially in 2014 and 2015. In 2014 he would win his fourth Gold Glove and his second Silver Slugger, and in 2015 he was once again nominated to the All-Star Game.
His return to Dodger Stadium, this time as a team member as opposed to as a rival with the Padres, was well-received, when he blasted a three-run home run, his first of many with the Dodgers, in his first at-bat. He also mashed two home runs in a do-or-die Game 5 of the 2013 National League Championship Series, a series which the Dodgers would go on to lose one game later.
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