The twins reached an agreement with shortstop Andrelton Simmons on a $ 10.5 million one-year deal, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand on Tuesday night. The club has not confirmed the move. Simmons will take over from the full-time twins, while current Jorge Polanco will move to
The twins reached an agreement with shortstop Andrelton Simmons on a $ 10.5 million one-year deal, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand on Tuesday night. The club has not confirmed the move.
Simmons will take over the job of the full-time twins, while the current Jorge Polanco will move to a useful role. Simmons would also have been the main target of the Phillies, after they agreed earlier on Tuesday with a contract with JT Realmuto.
The 31-year-old Simmons ranks among the best defensive breaks in recent history. He holds four Rawlings Gold Glove Awards and also won the Platinum Glove Award (best overall in each league) with the Braves in 2013. The Curaçao native was selected as the Braves ’second-round pick in the 2010 MLB draft and spent the first four seasons of the Major League in Atlanta before being traded to the Angels after the ’15 season. Simmons won his third and fourth gold glove career with Los Angeles and finished eighth in the 2017 American League MVP Award.
Simmons has taken a step back on the plate since then, reducing .271 / .318 / .362 since the start of the 2019 season. He is a .269 / .317 / .369 player with 91 OPS + over nine seasons. big league. But Simmons brings the elite contact ability to the twins’ strong line, ranking in the top 10 percent of MLB’s skilled players in both the whiff rate and the strikeout rate in each of the last two campaigns.
Matt Kelly is a reporter for New York-based MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @mattkellyMLB.