58 Facts About Nolan Arenado

Nolan James Arenado is an American professional baseball third baseman for the St Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball.

Nolan Arenado made his MLB debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2013 and was traded to the Cardinals before the 2021 season.

In 2016, Nolan Arenado became the youngest player in Rockies franchise history to reach 100 home runs.

Nolan Arenado played for the United States national team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, winning Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament.

Nolan Arenado hit for the cycle twice: once on June 18,2017 and again on July 1,2022.

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Nolan Arenado became the sixth player in history to finish off such a performance with a walk-off home run.

Nolan James Arenado was born in Newport Beach, California, and raised in nearby Lake Forest, an Orange County city sandwiched between Irvine, Mission Viejo and Laguna Hills.

Nolan Arenado attended El Toro High School in Lake Forest, and played shortstop on the school's baseball team with fellow future major leaguers Austin Romine and Matt Chapman.

Nolan Arenado committed to attend Arizona State University on a college baseball scholarship.

Nolan Arenado was highly acclaimed as a hitter, less so as a defender.

Nolan Arenado later recalled that he “had really bad feet, ” and “was too lazy, ” for which Modesto manager Jerry Weinstein relentlessly scolded him.

Nolan Arenado tasked Arenado to take ground balls earlier than the other players and to move rapidly and precisely and maintain readiness at third base.

Nolan Arenado went 0-for-3 in his MLB debut against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

On October 29,2013, Nolan Arenado became the first NL rookie to win a Rawlings Gold Glove Award at third base, and the first in both major leagues since Frank Malzone won in the American League in 1957.

Nolan Arenado tied for seventh place with Evan Gattis in the NL Rookie of the Year Award voting which was won by Jose Fernandez with Nolan Arenado receiving the most votes as a third baseman.

Nolan Arenado won his second Gold Glove Award despite playing in just 111 games.

In 2015, Nolan Arenado earned his second NL Player of the Week Award on June 28, hitting a major league-leading three multi-home runs games in six games, seven home runs and 14 RBI.

Nolan Arenado scored 10 times, second-highest in the major leagues.

Nolan Arenado became an MLB All-Star for the first time as a National League reserve at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.

Nolan Arenado collected an NL-leading 38 hits and was second in the league with.

Nolan Arenado was the first Rockies player to lead the NL in home runs since Walker hit 49 in 1997 and the first to lead the majors in RBI since Andres Galarraga with 150 in 1996.

Additionally, Nolan Arenado set a major league record for extra base hits by a third baseman in one season with 89, surpassing Chipper Jones' total of 87 in 1999.

On defense, Nolan Arenado won his third consecutive Gold Glove, and, for the first time, was the major league-wide winner among third basemen for both the Fielding Bible and the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Awards.

Nolan Arenado became the second Rockies player to win the Fielding Bible at any position, following shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.

Nolan Arenado received official consideration for the NL MVP Award for the first time, ranking eighth in voting behind Harper, Paul Goldschmidt, Joey Votto, Anthony Rizzo, Andrew McCutchen, Jake Arrieta, and Zack Greinke.

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Nolan Arenado made his second All-Star Game, played at Petco Park in San Diego.

Nolan Arenado won his fourth consecutive Gold Glove at the third base position, becoming the first third baseman in MLB history to win four Gold Gloves in his first four seasons, as well as his second Silver Slugger, Fielding Bible and Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Awards.

Nolan Arenado became the first player in Rockies history to lead the Majors in RBIs in two separate seasons.

Nolan Arenado finished in fifth place in the NL MVP Award voting behind Kris Bryant, Daniel Murphy, Corey Seager and Rizzo, receiving almost double the number of vote points as he had gotten the year before.

Nolan Arenado received $11,750,000 for 2017 followed by $17,750,000 during the 2018 season.

The 288th cycle in MLB history, Nolan Arenado's was the eighth by a Rockies player, and the 17th overall accomplished at Coors Field.

Nolan Arenado tied the franchise record held by Jeff Cirillo and Todd Walker for the number of total bases in a single game with 14, and became the first player in Rockies history to reach both three home runs and five hits in a single game.

Nolan Arenado became the first player in the majors to reach 80 RBI.

Nolan Arenado scored 100 runs, produced 87 extra base hits, 355 total bases, 62 walks, nine intentional walks, three stolen bases,.

Nolan Arenado established or tied career highs in batting average, hits, doubles, triples, total bases, stolen bases, OBP, SLG and OPS.

End of campaign awards for Nolan Arenado included a selection as the third baseman of Baseball America's All-MLB Team and third successive Silver Slugger Award.

Nolan Arenado won his first Platinum Glove Award as the finest defensive member of all the National League, and a third succedent promotion of both the Fielding Bible and Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Awards for third base.

Nolan Arenado clinched fourth place in the NL MVP voting—the highest ranking of his career—behind Stanton, Votto and Goldschmidt, and ahead of fifth-place Blackmon.

Nolan Arenado won his second consecutive Rawlings Platinum Glove Award with his former high school teammate Matt Chapman.

Nolan Arenado finished third in MVP voting behind the Cubs' Javier Baez and the Brewers' Christian Yelich.

On February 26,2019, Nolan Arenado agreed to an eight-year, $260 million contract extension with the Rockies.

Nolan Arenado was selected by fan vote to start in the MLB All-Star Game at third base for the National League, hosted in Cleveland.

Nolan Arenado ranked third in the National League in hits and total bases, fourth in RBIs, and fifth in home runs, runs scored, batting average, slugging percentage and OPS.

Nolan Arenado won his seventh straight Gold Glove Award and his third straight Platinum Glove Award and finished sixth in the MVP voting.

Nolan Arenado won his eighth consecutive Gold Glove Award at third base, tying Scott Rolen for the third-most Gold Gloves at the position.

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Nolan Arenado was named the National League's starting third baseman at the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Denver.

Nolan Arenado won the Gold Glove Award at third base, one of five Cardinals to win that year, an MLB record.

Nolan Arenado received a two-game suspension for the incident, but the suspension was reduced to one game after an appeal.

Nolan Arenado was the first Cardinals third baseman to win the award since Ken Reitz in May of 1977.

Nolan Arenado hit an RBI triple in the first inning, a two-run homer in the third inning, doubled in the sixth, and in the ninth, singled on a hard-hit grounder that caromed off third baseman Matt Vierling's glove.

The following game, Nolan Arenado hit the first of four consecutive home runs on July 2,2022, the 11th such occurrence in major league history.

Nolan Arenado was selected to represent the Cardinals at the All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

Nolan Arenado played for United States national baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Nolan Arenado is exceptionally skilled in range, catching, and throwing, including arm strength and accuracy, even while throwing off-balance.

Nolan Arenado wears an oversized glove to give him more margin for error.

Nolan Arenado married his high school sweetheart, Laura Kwan, in December 2019.

Longtime Dodgers play-by-play announcer Vin Scully autographed the bat with which Nolan Arenado hit his 40th home run of 2016, during Scully's last season of broadcasting, and his final series of calling Dodgers' home games.

Josh Fuentes, Nolan Arenado's cousin, has played as a third baseman for the Colorado Rockies.