Last night was an emotional time on #RockiesTwitter following, first, Jeff Bridich’s statement that the Rockies did not plan to trade Nolan Arenado (YEA!!!), and then increasingly clear statements from Arenado that he was unhappy (OH NO...).
I was reminded of a Ken Rosenthal article from March 2019 in which he recounted the behind-the-scenes action of the Arenado contract extension. Two passages stayed with me.
First, this one:
Arenado understood the Rockies might think he was waiting on Harper and Machado to set the market, simply because he was taking so long to act.