| Nolan Arenado | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Arenado with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
| St. Louis Cardinals – No. 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Third baseman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born: April 16, 1991 Newport Beach, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | ||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | ||||||||||||||||||
| April 28, 2013, for the Colorado Rockies | ||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through 2024 season) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .285 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,826 | |||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 341 | |||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 1,132 | |||||||||||||||||
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Nolan James Arenado (/ˌærəˈnɑːdoʊ/; born April 16, 1991) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Arenado is widely recognized as one of the best defensive third basemen of all time. He is the only infielder to win the Rawlings Gold Glove Award in each of his first ten MLB seasons. He made his MLB debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2013 and was traded to the Cardinals before the 2021 season.
A native of Newport Beach, California, Arenado attended El Toro High School in Lake Forest before becoming the Rockies' second-round selection in the 2009 MLB draft. An eight-time MLB All-Star, his defensive accolades (in addition to his ten Gold Gloves) include four total (and three consecutive) Fielding Bible Awards and three consecutive Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Awards, as well as six consecutive Rawlings Platinum Gloves. Offensively, he is a five-time Silver Slugger Award winner and has twice led the league in both home runs and runs batted in (RBI), and currently leads all major leaguers in RBIs since the start of the 2015 season.
During his minor league career, Arenado was a two-time All-Star Futures Game selection, and led the minor leagues in RBI in 2011 with 155 over 163 total games. In 2016, Arenado became the youngest player in Rockies franchise history to reach 100 home runs. He has hit for the cycle twice: once on June 18, 2017, and again on July 1, 2022. He became the sixth player in history to finish off such a performance with a walk-off home run. In 2017, he became the 11th major leaguer and first third baseman in history to drive in 130 or more runs in three successive seasons.
Arenado represents the United States national team in international competition. In the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), he helped win Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament. Arenado also participated in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.