After more than a year of going back and forth, the dam between the St. Louis Cardinals and Nolan Arenado finally broke on Tuesday as the Cardinals traded the disgruntled third baseman to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a deal nowhere near commiserate what a player of his skillset should get.
While he's not the player that he was earlier in his career, he’s an eight-time All-Star who still remains one of the best defensive infielders in all of baseball. But instead of St. Louis getting a bevy of prospects in return for him, they received a single pitching prospect while still having to pay down $31 million of the $42 million remaining on his salary.