Carlos Gonzalez is going to turn 25 years old this month. He has been traded twice at the big league level in 4 years. Something tells me that Cargo isn’t going anywhere for a while these days. The Rockies outfielder finished the 2010 season hitting a league best .336. Oh, and he also hit 34 home runs, drove in 117 RBIs, scored 111 runs, and stole 26 bases. Numbers worthy of an MVP award.

Gonzalez started in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization until he was involved in a deal in 2007 that sent him, Brett Anderson and others to Oakland for Dan Haren. Now he’s in the same division as the Diamondbacks, and Haren is on the Angels. Strike 1.

Oakland, lacking patience, got greedy and then spun Gonzalez to Colorado in 2008 after a crappy year for Matt Holliday. What appeared to be a good deal on paper, didn’t turn out that way. Holliday is now on the Cardinals. Strike 2.

Something tells me Strike 3 may not come, or at least not for a while. My feeling is, financials aside, Cargo will remain in Colorado for a bit. The question is are these numbers going to become an every year thing for him? If they do, Arizona and Oakland will have frowny faces:(