Arenado capitalizing on spacious home park

Nolan Arenado is named the 2017 NL Silver Slugger Award winner at third base for the third consecutive seasonDENVER -- In a season during which more home runs were hit across Major League Baseball than ever before, Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado hit 37, four fewer than his National League-leading total in 2016, and five fewer than his NL-leading total in 2015. Yet this past season was the best offensive campaign of Arenado's career: He posted a career-high 132 OPS+ and had a career-high 355 total bases.

While Arenado wasn't an NL Most Valuable Player finalist, his season was remarkable in that his hitting approach at Coors Field continued to evolve to take better advantage of its most…