Google translates “arenado” as Spanish for “sandblasted”. Leaving aside the sand, Rockie third baseman Nolan Arenado had a breakout year in 2015, recording one of the more impressive under-the-radar seasons in recent memory, leading the NL with 42 big blasts, and leading the majors with 130 RBI and 354 total bases.

More after the jump.

Arenado’s breakout year came in his third full season, continuing a trend of increasing seasonal totals in R, 2B, HR, RBI, BB, TB, WAR, BA, SLG, OPS and OPS+. That trend was highlighted by Arenado’s HR and RBI totals, each more than double his 2014 marks.

Despite his big offensive season in 2015, Arenado actually recorded higher Rfield than Rbat last year, continuing the strong defensive play that has seen him record at least 1.9 dWAR in each of his three major league seasons. That balanced contribution of offense and defense makes Arenado the youngest of only 6 players to record 6 oWAR and 6 dWAR over the first three seasons of a career.

Part of the reason Arenado’s exploits didn’t attract more attention had to do with the continued success of high profile phenoms Bryce Harper and Mike Trout. Those two also smacked 40 round-trippers last year making 2015 only the second season (and the first in 60 years) with three under-25 players reaching that home run plateau.

Eddie Mathews is conspicuous in the list above, with three 40 home run seasons before age 25, tied with Alex Rodriguez for the most ever. Arenado’s 354 total bases last year are the second highest total by an under 25 third baseman, trailing only Mathews’ total of 363 (his career high) in 1953.

The 31 years represented above also, by chance, encompass 31 players with a 40 home run season before age 25. Of those 31 players, Arenado joins the group of five below to debut aged 22 or older.

The other four all reached 300 home runs for their careers, though each of them had career totals through age 24 of fewer games and PA and higher OBP, SLG and OPS scores than Arenado’s marks.

Arenado is also part of another sub-group of 5 players from the group of 31. This bunch added 40 doubles to go with their 40 home run season before age 25.

Arenado’s 43 doubles last year raised his career total to 106, putting Arenado in, you guessed it, another group of 5 players to debut at age 22 and record 100 doubles through age 24.

Time will tell whether or not Arenado’s breakout year was just that, rather than a Coors-induced anomaly. But, there’s no denying the wealth of quality players, many of them all-time greats, among the lists above, making Arenado definitely someone to watch more closely in the years ahead.