In addition to, hopefully, an athletic outfielder who can hit, the Rays got one of baseball’s bigger and more polarizing personalities in Carlos Gomez. Tampa Bay Times beat reporter Marc Topkin wrote about Gomez and the perception and reality of that large personality, noting that in addition to the altercations he’s known for. Click through to read them all because there’s a number of good quotes in there, including this one from Sergio Romo:
“He’s very animated. So it’s easy in my opinion to read him wrong, or to sit there and find him frustrating, playing against him.