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Rockies' Nolan Arenado worth the price of admission

As baseball fans, when we talk about guys we would pay to see, we all value different qualities. Every sport has its own feats of strength or speed. But if there's one thing that advertises baseball unlike any other -- something that makes you sit up and take notice, somebody who gives you something to talk about decades later -- it's a great fielder at third base.

Fifty years later, some folks are still talking about Brooks Robinson. Now walk it forward: 40 years ago, there was Graig Nettles; 30 years, Terry Pendleton; 20 years, Ken Caminiti; 10 years, Adrian Beltre.