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Nolan Arenado is willing to be traded by the St. Louis Cardinals because, at 33 years old, he wants to play for a team that can compete for the World Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like his biological clock is ticking,\u201d said Arenado\u2019s agent, Joel Wolfe, on Tuesday at the winter meetings. \u201cAnd if the team\u2019s not winning it\u2019s driving him crazy every day, every night all through the offseason. And he takes it so personal, like it\u2019s all on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arenado, an eight-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winner at third base, is also open to switching to first base. He hit .272 with 16 home runs and 71 RBIs this year, which was his worst season in ten years.<\/p>\n

St. Louis traded for Arenado from Colorado before the 2021 season. In his first two years with the Cardinals, they lost in the wild-card round, and they failed to make the playoffs in consecutive seasons after that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cardinals are changing direction, which is fine. All teams do that,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cSo if that\u2019s the way it is and they\u2019ve said it might be beneficial to move you and they were open and communicated about it, he\u2019s like: \u2018I get it. Let\u2019s just try and find a place where they\u2019re in a different place,\u2019 where he could just jump in and help the team go to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ryan Helsley and Nolan Arenado celebrate in the game<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arenado has played 1,629 games in the field during his career, all at third base. He won Gold Gloves every year from 2013-2022, tying with Seattle\u2019s Ichiro Suzuki for winning the award in his first 10 seasons.<\/p>\n

Arenado told Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak that he\u2019s willing to switch positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it would make Mo\u2019s job easier to get to the right team, Nolan is more than willing to move around,\u201d Wolfe said, quoting Arenado as saying, \u201c\u2018I\u2019m not insulted to go play first and I can win a Gold Glove over there if that\u2019s what it takes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to be just the first to offer that so that Mo could tell other teams that,\u201d Wolfe added.<\/p>\n

Arenado has a .285 career batting average, with 341 home runs and 1,132 RBIs for both the Cardinals and Colorado Rockies. He has $74 million remaining on his contract for the next three seasons, part of a nine-year, $275 million deal.<\/p>\n

Arenado has a full no-trade clause, meaning he has the final say in any trade decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more of just an ongoing discussion of: Would you be OK with this team? Would you be OK with that team?\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to waste Mo\u2019s time and there are some hard no\u2019s of where he would prefer not to go and things like that. It\u2019s been somewhat dynamic in the discussion about how that works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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