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NOLAN ARENADO

The five-time All-Star third baseman was traded from Colorado to the St. Louis Cardinals for five players. Arenado, who won a Gold Glove in each of his eight seasons with the Rockies, joined a team that reached the postseason seven times in the past 10years. The Cardinals last won a World Series in 2011. Arenado hit .300 with a .937OPS and averaged 40 homers and 124 RBIs between 2015-19. He led the league in homers three times in that span.

BLAKE SNELL

The 2018AL Cy Young Award winner was traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the San Diego Padres for four players in December. The left-hander left the mound with a 1-0 lead in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the World Series but the bullpen blew it and the Dodgers clinched the title with a 3-1 win. Snell had a 3.24ERA in 11starts last season. He was 21-5with a 1.89ERA in 2018. The Padres had the second-best record in the NL in 2020, snapping a 13-year postseason drought. But they were swept in the NL division series by the Dodgers. Snell will anchor a rotation that features newcomers Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove.

YU DARVISH

The four-time AllStar right-hander was traded to the Padres from the Chicago Cubs in a seven-player deal on the same day San Diego acquired Snell. Darvish has twice finished runnerup for a Cy Young Award, including last season when he was 8-3 with a 2.01 ERA in 12starts. Darvish has three years and $59 million left on the $126 million, six-year deal he signed with the Cubs before the 2018 season.