Jenkins writes: "His style is an elegant amalgamation of Southern and Baja California . The way he fields a ground ball, off to the side with one hand, is smooth and instinctive. ‘That’s from Mexico ,’ Gonzalez says. The way he approaches at bats, poring over scouting reports and game tapes, is obsessive. ‘That’s from the United States ,’ he says. And the way he swings, his bat level through the zone, hands inside the ball? ‘That,’ he says, ‘is from Tony Gwynn.’ "