{"id":100228,"date":"2025-12-18T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100228\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:12:10","slug":"nolan-arenado-a-trade-possibility-for-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100228\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Arenado a trade ‘possibility’ for Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Angels<\/a> thought Anthony Rendon<\/a> would be their long-term third baseman of the future when they signed him to a contract after the 2019 season. Rendon has dealt with no shortage of injury trouble in Anaheim, however. While initial rumors of Anthony Rendon potentially retiring<\/a> have since quieted, the veteran infielder and the Angels are expected to negotiate a contract buyout. With uncertainty around Rendon’s future in Anaheim, St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado<\/a> has reportedly emerged<\/a> as a trade candidate for the Angels, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.<\/p>\n

Rosenthal notes that Arenado is a \u201cpossibility\u201d for the Halos amid their contract buyout talks with Rendon. He also reports that a trade is not \u201cimminent\u201d at the moment. Still, Arenado is clearly on the Angels’ radar, and the Cardinals are rumored to be interested in trading him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arenado, 34, was once regarded as arguably the best third baseman in MLB. He’s seen a decline in performance over the years, but the right-handed slugger is still more than capable of making an offensive impact. Additionally, Arenado is a stellar defender at the hot corner.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what kind of trade return the Cardinals can get for him, though. Arenado is in his mid-30s and slashed just .237\/.289\/.377 across 107 games played in 2025. Perhaps a fresh start is exactly what Nolan Arenado needs for a late-career resurgence. And Arenado may welcome a return home, as he is from Southern California.<\/p>\n

A potential Angels-Cardinals trade likely won’t come to fruition for a while as the Halos work on their contract buyout with Rendon. Nevertheless, a deal seems to be a realistic possibility in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels thought Anthony Rendon would be their long-term third baseman of the future when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,33144,2866,1334,2952,54640],"class_list":["post-100228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-rumors","tag-nolan-arenado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}