They are NOT the same. Arenado said, “Yes, I would accept a trade to six teams”. You are off base trying to draw a parallel to Contreras, who said “No, I would not accept a trade.”
This is in line with your earlier insistence that the Houston deal failed because Arenado was not offered enough money to waive his NTC to go to a team that was not on his list. Theories with nothing to back it up.