Nolan Arenado earns yet another honor

Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado has been named the National League Player of the Week for the seven-day period ending July 23. Arenado posted a slash line of .458/.480/1.000 for the week with nine runs scored, four home runs, and 13 RBI in five games. This is the second Player of the Week award for the Rockies with Charlie Blackmon taking home the honors for the stretch ending on May 28.

He had a career day at the dish on Wednesday, going 5-for-6 with three home runs and seven RBI. He became just the fourth player in the last 25 years to hit three home runs in one game and also hit for the cycle in that same season. He became the first player in franchise history to record five hits and three home runs in one game.

Since the All-Star break, Arenado is hitting .444/.459/.944 with five home runs and 16 RBI.

And that’s just the stuff you can measure on offense.

In addition to all that, he remains a daily web gem factory at third and is a shoe-in to win his fifth consecutive Gold Glove award. He turned in a few dazzlers last week, as per usual, bailing his pitchers out of numerous tough spots while the club went 4-1. While these types of awards are usually divvied out based on offensive output (because honestly taking defense into account for a weekly award would be strange) it still puts into perspective that it’s hard to argue that anyone in MLB did more to contribute to wins last week than the man at the hot corner in Denver, Colorado.

The best reaction to the news probably came from Charlie Blackmon:

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Arenado is also having a career year at the plate slashing .314/.361/.590 with 22 home runs and a league-leading 86 RBI.

Maybe, just maybe, the next honor he takes home after July Player of the Month is the National League’s MVP.