Arenado drives in five runs, ties Wheeler for AFL lead
Nolan Arenado was 3-for-4 with five RBI and a run scored in Salt River’s 10-5 win Wednesday. Arenado, who is tied with teammate Tim Wheeler for the team and league lead in RBI with nine, drove in the first two runs of the game with an RBI single and added two more RBI singles and a sacrifice fly.
Arenado is hitting .381 in five games and has struck out just once in 21 at-bats.
Reliever Casey Weathers walked one and struck out two in a scoreless inning.
Arenado looks like he is going to be a stud.
And I’m guessing that his fall performance has helped to move up his ETA in Denver to sometime in late 2012.
We hope.
Never happen, this club goes by level by level. Expect him sometime in 2013 if we are lucky.
Another RBI tonight for Arenado. He is definitely the Rockies’ bright spot in the AFL. I’d love for Agbayani to be right about his ETA, but that seems a tad too optimistic, and I suspect Hollywoodswingers is probably right. None of the other Rockies’ prospects in the AFL seem to be distinguishing them.
Steve, I haven’t seen Scahill in a boxscore. Is he injured?
Julian, the problem with my late 2012 ETA for Arenado is that it assumes that 3B remains a black hole next year, that the Rockies are out of contention by the end of August, and that they therefore have nothing to lose by getting a look at Arenado.
I hope I’m wrong…
Drew Pomeranz arrested last night
I’ve been impressed with Nolan Arenado. It wasn’t like most of his RBIs came on big flies. He’s just been a consistent bat that he just drives in runs when the opportunity is there unlike the Rox major leaguers that expand their zone and swing at nothing but air. I wouldn’t be afraid to let Arenado break camp with the Rox if Stewart doesn’t show anything in spring training (and we don’t get a stud 3B). It looks like the order of 2012 third basemen in order of first shot, first claim: acquisition(if any), Stewart, Pacheco, Arenado, Wiggy (please get rid of him).