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Originally Posted by spoot388
all this talk about these big contracts and not a single mention about the most surprising contract signed of the offseason: colorado extends nolan arenado for 8 years / $260 million. there has been so much talk this offseason about nolan hitting free agency next year, like the yankees were not going after machado so they can get nolan, that there was no way colorado would offer that much money to keep him, no way nolan would want to stay in colorado instead of playing for a constant contender, that he was going to be the biggest fish to catch next year, etc. after the news broke about nolan staying in colorado, i saw posts in facebook groups from fan of about 8-10 teams disappointed their team wouldn't be able to get him next year. apparently 1/3 of the league expected they were going to sign nolan.
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speaking of a surprise relating to Nolan Arenado, Tim Kurkjian published a list this past week of what he deems the 5 greatest 3rd basemen of all time (I guess still to this day it's the least represented position at the Hall of Fame). Anyway, he's got Arenado at #2 already. I mean he definitely ain't moving up any higher than that, because he had, very appropriately, Brooks Robinson #1. but, especially being on the other side of the country half the time, I don't know much about Arenado besides just numbers on a paper. but I've always had plenty of respect for Kurkjian.