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Kiszla: Homer for homer and dollar for dollar, Ryan McMahon is better value at third base than Nolan Arenado

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In their infinite wisdom, those knuckleheads in charge of the Rockies are paying $500,000 more for Nolan Arenado to play third base for St. Louis this season than the $5 million they’re spending on Ryan McMahon to man the hot corner in LoDo.

Makes you sunflower-seed-spitting mad, doesn’t it?

Yeah, I miss Arenado, too.

As McMahon unwrapped a package of fresh batting gloves in the Rockies clubhouse on Wednesday morning, I asked him: Does it ever enter your mind while standing at third base in Coors Field that you’re working the same hallowed patch of infield dirt where Arenado became a legend?