About two months ago, Purple Row’s Ryan Freemyer published an article titled “Nolan Arenado is already great, but he might be getting even better.” Since then, Arenado has been making a convincing case against “might.”
Arenado already improved at the plate from 2013 to 2015. He went from a below average hitter in 2013 to the league leader in home runs in 2015. But he still had a major flaw in his game. He swung at everything and resisted taking walks. He had the 10th highest chase rate in baseball at 38.5 percent, which led to a poor 5.