Speaking at his news conference Tuesday to announce a four-year, $30 million contract extension, Marco Gonzales spoke fondly of his “bad-ass parents.”
The Mariners have decided to go all-in on their bad-ass southpaw, a baby-faced bulldog whom they hand-selected as the initial core piece of their rebuild.
As is always the case in deals such as this, both sides took some risk – Gonzales, 27, could flame out prematurely, or he could outperform the contract and cost himself money in the long term.
Yet both fully embraced those potential perils, and were clearly ecstatic about the deal and what it symbolizes.