If Altuve is your Lf going forward, and I think it makes sense that he should be if he can track down balls out there which I suspect he can, Arenado makes your infield defense fucking awesome and provides a quality 6 hitter (whose pretty good against RHP and doesn’t need a platoon partner).
That means that against LHP you play Chas and Meyers (or Dubon) who are legit awesome and above average respectively against LHP, hope Chas and Pena are fine against RHP and only need one bat to work out for you in the OF platoon against RHP.
if we could get him for 15M a year (which is what it sounds like) and a package like Leon, Whitley and one of the pitchers that isn’t Brito or Blubaugh or Ullola (which is what the deal sounds like) then that makes a ton of sense for this team. It means you could also go get a stud OF in FA next year when we have 35M of wasted salary come off the books.
I’d be all over doing that deal under those parameters. Thats allegedly what we were looking at.
Doesn’t matter though as he still doesn’t want to come here, so…