Adrian Gonzalez

Read the arguments from Bleacher Fan and Loyal Homer about which player they believe is the most important on this off-season’s MLB Hot Stove. View This Poll surveys If you are a Chicago Cubs fan like me, you live for Hot Stove and Spring Training every year. Sure, there is a lot of poetic mumbo jumbo about the Spring season and how just as flowers are coming into full bloom and a seemingly relentless Winter is subsiding baseball teams are again taking the diamond and setting out on their yearlong adventure for supremacy. It seems like every baseball story in the Spring has some ... Read Full Story

Adrian Gonzalez #23 of the San Diego Padres strikes out against the Arizona Diamondbacks to end the eighth inning of the major league baseball game at Chase Field on July 8, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Diamondbacks defeated the Padres 6-2. (Getty Images) more pics » Adrian Gonzalez , the San Diego Padres slugger beloved by his team's fans, may be headed east to play for the Boston Red Sox. The BoSox have been hurting lately, and could use the extra bat, but Gonzalez would not be cheap. From an article at masslive.com: Reports on the Internet and from other sources indicate the Red ... Read Full Story

.autotagframe2 { float:right; padding:5px; width:210px; border: silver solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center; } Celinda González, the mother of 2 year-old Aleiro González who died, at her home in Tocumen - By Ginela C. Escala M. for La Critica - Panamanian health authorities from the Ministry of Health are investigating the death of a 2 year-old infant, who died at home in residence number 29 of the neighborhood of Santa Eduviges in the area of Tocumen, to determine if the death was caused by the H1N1 influenza virus. The child, whose name was Aleiro González, of the Kuna ethnic group, presented the first symptoms of a ... Read Full Story

BY BYRON YORK for the National Review - By any standard, the story of Pedro Miguel González is astonishing. The son of a prominent Panamanian politician, González, according to U.S. prosecutors, murdered a United States Army sergeant on a road outside Panama City on June 10, 1992, the day before Pres. George H. W. Bush was to visit the country. With his father’s help, González fled Panama, eventually coming back to be acquitted in a sham trial. Though the Clinton administration labeled him a terrorist, González became an important political figure in Panama, ultimately winning election as president of the national assembly — an ... Read Full Story

Image courtesy of Icon SMI Is there anyone in Major League Baseball that produces like Adrián González with so little fanfare. To do what he’s doing in a Pitcher’s park is simply amazing. He’s batting .315 with 19 Runs, 9 HRs, and 20 RBI on the year, which puts him among the league leaders in all of those categories. His OPS is 1.058. It’s not like he’s a flash in the pan either. Check out his past numbers - 2006: .304, 83 R, 24 HRs, 82 RBI, .862 OPS - 2007: .282, 101 R, 30 HRs, 100 RBI, .849 OPS - 2008: .279, 103 ... Read Full Story