The sweetest swing in baseball belongs to Carlos Gonzalez, a choreographed dance of verve and force and style. When the Rockies right fielder whirls his bat at a pitch, even his big-league peers admire the movements.
“I say, ‘You look sexy. You look beautiful,’ ” Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz said in a TV interview this season.
The 30-year-old Gonzalez is a two-time all-star, a Silver Slugger Award winner and, when his swing is hot, like it was over the second half a season ago, he is among the best in the game. But his swing exists outside a spreadsheet.