Cardinals star Nolan Arenado was named the National League Player of the Month. Arenado batted .375 for St. Louis with five home runs, 17 RBIs, 12 extra-base hits and an 1.125 OPS. He led the NL in OPS, ranked third in batting average, tied for second in RBIs and tied for fourth in home runs.
It's also the third career Player of the Month Award for Arenado, who also won with the Rockies in September 2015 and July 2017. Arenado is the second straight Cardinals player to be named NL Player of the Month, since Tyler O'Neill won the final Player of the Month Award of the 2021 season.
[With his home run on Sunday vs Arizona] Arenado became just the fourth third baseman in MLB history to record at least 275 home runs in their opening 10 seasons, joining Eddie Mathews, Mike Schmidt, and Troy Glaus on this exclusive list.
It is always impressive for any player to be on a statistical list alongside multiple Hall of Famers, and more so, it is quite noteworthy that the likes of Adrian Beltre and George Brett did not achieve this feat over their storied careers. Beltre tallied a combined 217 home runs in his first 10 campaigns with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Seattle Mariners, while the former Kansas City Royals third baseman logged 125 dingers in his such seasons.
