It’s an opportunity to represent his home country in the World Baseball Classic and it’s an opportunity that Gonzalez relishes.
“If you play on our side, it’s a little bit different than a playoff game,” Gonzalez said. “The Latin culture is so different than the one here. You will see a lot of noise in the stands. People playing music during the game. People dancing during the game. Singing songs like it’s a soccer game. It’s cool. It’s how we grew up. It’s how we play in winter ball. It’s something that takes you back. You don’t have the opportunity to play in winter ball any more so it takes you back to those days when you were a prospect coming up in the system.