Nolan Arenado, Astros 3B?! The A-Team Offers An Emphatic Response To Rumors

Over the weekend, rumors re-surfaced that the Astros could still be trying to trade for St. Louis Cardinals 3B Nolan Arenado. The A-Team offers some strong opinions on the possibility of this trade being pulled off. There are no blurred lines for how they feel about this idea. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you feel like this is the owner or more?
Because I saw this a lot this week speaking of
X this weekend, I should say, and I saw this
from I want to say at least one member of
the media that covers a team. It seems like Dana
Brown wants him an awful lot, like Dana wants to
get his man.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, there's well, this is not Jim Crane's not you know,
Dana's berner saying we gotta go, we gotta make this
team better. I know you once investigated this, so continue
with that. We gotta have Nolan Aeronaudo. This is Dane.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But we do have to ask that question sometimes. Okay,
is this a Jim Crane move or is this a
I agree, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
If this is a Jim Crane move, then go ahead
and tell Dana to stay in Florida and kick your
feet up and yep. But why would he do this?
Why would Jim Crane be all over a deal like this?
This is this is not a franchise altering deal. It's
not franchise altering money. It is only because of where
they are from a CBT standpoint, potentially there's a little
bit of that angle but I mean, I just I

(00:58):
want people to realize what they're doing, and that's why
I'm trying to be factual about what he was last
year with the Cardinals. And maybe you want to even
sell me that he wasn't into it, which I think
is awful, but possibly that he wanted to be out
of there last year. He doesn't want to be there,
and he already said no to a deal to this
team once already this offseason. Again, multiple reports seem to

(01:20):
indicate it's not likely and isn't at the finish line.
It's more likely barely breaking the starter's pistol portion of
the race. So that's good news to me. A couple
of years ago, this was a very good player. This
was the third place finisher in the MVP vote in
twenty twenty two at age thirty one twenty twenty two.

(01:42):
It's now twenty twenty five. He's a little over a
month away from turning thirty four. I told you he's
rapidly declining. And when you go from an eight ninety
one ops to a seven nineteen ops and two seasons,
the twenty two season I mentioned where he finished third
in the MVP voting and this past season where his
OPS was barely over seven hundred, basically Jeremy Paine's range

(02:04):
and his OPS plus where one hundred is the average player,
and he went from one fifty one, the best of
his career to one oh one one oh one that
is average. What are you doing? I could go further.
I could tell you what has hard hit exit velocity
is if you want. That might drive the point home
for everybody out there who thinks he can still bring it.

(02:25):
It's been above eighty eight essentially his entire career. It's
eighty nine for his career. Last year it was eighty six.
Doesn't sound like big difference, but if you know what
it means when you're exit velo, how does it drop
that much in five hundred six hundred played appearances Because
it's consistently significantly worse for an entire season. He'll get
it back at age thirty four, won't he?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hello? Yeah, I I just assume. Because here's the other thing.
As we go to break, who are you sending out
in this deal? Again?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I doubt, very seriously, it's anything that's too traumatic to
the future of the ass good. I mean, this is
a player who wants to leave this is a player who,
in order to make it an even better deal, they'd
have to pay more for it. They'd have to give
the Astros even more money to try to so called
buy a prospect. But you're adding a player who was
an All Star his whole career until he's now on

(03:16):
the block, not coming off of an All Star season,
still making a good chunk of money, not playing his
best baseball, not playing for a winner. No thank you,
I'm sorry, No thank you. I know I'm not. I
get the baseball side of what they currently have, I
really truly does. This is not the kind of move

(03:38):
the Astros should make, in my opinion,