Man, I don’t know.
He’s hitting an ugly, career-worst .210/.272/.322. The power is down, the run game is down, the strikeouts are up, he doesn’t draw walks, he makes bad decisions on defense, and he tends to swing so hard and out of control that the right-handed hitter ends up in the left-handed batter’s box.
Carlos Gomez is 30 years old and it would be a leap of faith to believe his terrible two-season run with the Astros has just been a slump.
Houston is paying Gomez the balance of this year’s $9 million salary to go away, knowing it could have meant he’d end up playing for a team the Astros are competing with (at a little more than $100,000) to extend their season past 162.