I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the greatness of Nolan Arenado.
Given his nightly Gold Glove work at third base and his MVP-caliber season, he’s a hard man to escape if you love baseball.
But here’s the thing. There are people within the Rockies organization whom I know and respect who still resent Arenado for forcing the Rockies to trade him to St. Louis in February 2021.
Their thinking, essentially, is that Arenado turned his back on the Rockies after signing an eight-year, $260 million contract before the 2019 season. A lot of hard-core Rockies fans that I know resent Arenado, too.