MLB · 3B · Arizona Diamondbacks
Nolan Arenado
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 215 lb · born Newport Beach, CA, USA · age 35 · draft 2009 rd 2 · played 3B 118, DH 6 · MLB debut 2013-04-28
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-26): 10 G · .158 AVG · 3 HR · 7 RBI · .615 OPS
500 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
2,000 career hits — Mon, Jul 20 · night game vs. Athletics The scorecard → · The write-up →
1,200 career RBI — Wed, Apr 29 · night game vs. Milwaukee Brewers The scorecard → · The write-up →
1,000 career runs scored — Tue, Apr 21 · night game vs. Chicago White Sox The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipNolan Arenado #SMLB-55 · 2026 Topps Series 2 Stars Of MLB · 119 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-08-30 · paid links
The rookieNolan Arenado #US259 · 2013 Topps Update · 562 recent sales 7N ▼2.1%
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Scout’s note
Nolan Arenado, 35, from Newport Beach, California, has played 1,911 big-league games with 374 home runs. The Arizona third baseman is hitting .158 over his last ten, with 11 strikeouts in that span.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Arenado here — The Overnight: 2000 career hits (July 20, 2026) · 4-for-4, HR, BB, 3 RBI (April 22, 2026)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 377 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.417
- Deserved (xVal)0.33524
- Got (aVal)0.36755
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0475
today · 30 days ago, against the 335 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $24.40M
- Tax hit
- $21.00M
- Service time
- 12 yr 155 d
- Guaranteed
- $260M
The deal 8 years $260M (2019–2026), with an opt-out — $32.5M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 8 y/$260M (19-26)+'27 extn* · agent Wasserman · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $15.0M |
| Tax hit | $21.0M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $25.0M
- Guaranteed
- $275.0M
- Term
- 9 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $27.0M | $15.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The two sources disagree
MLB Spreadsheets has this deal at 9 yr, $275,000,000 (); Cot’s has it at 8 yr, $260,000,000 (). They are $15,000,000 apart — and they do not agree on the number of years either, which is usually one deal bracketed two ways.
We do not adjudicate. Both readings are cited and dated, and this is 19 of the 849 deals we could compare — the other 830 agree to the dollar.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Nolan Arenado
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Umpire favor
-1.8 net runs over 48 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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