It’s not often a team’s star player airs his frustrations with a reporter and says he’s “tired of losing” and that he “just gets pissed” about the state of things. But that’s what happened last week in an interview Nolan Arenado gave to The Athletic’s Nick Groke. (It was published on Thursday after the Rockies’ 9-8 win over the Giants.) Arenado expressed his dissatisfaction, as well as those of his teammates, with the 2018 season thus far. (I wrote about that interview here.) Since then, there has been robust speculation about what this interview means in terms of Arenado’s future with the Rockies.
Nolan Arenado speaks for the Rockies, and the front office is listening
