With Andrelton Simmons departing via free agency, the Angels take a one-year flier on Baltimore’s Jose Iglesias:

The Angels sent right-handers Jean Pinto, who turns 20 in January, and Garrett Stallings, the club’s fifth-round draft pick in 2019 out of Tennessee, to Baltimore in the deal.

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Maybe Jean Pinto will break out of the string of poor major league performances by Pintos in MLB history.

Iglesias hit .373 in 2020, but did not qualify for the batting title. While no doubt that offense was a small sample size outlier, Iglesias is a perfectly good hitter for a soild defender at short. He’s not Simmons at his best, but Simmons last saw his best in 2018. Simmons is a good player at a very reasonable cost, and should give the Angels the monetary room to bring in other good players to complement Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon.

Note that due to the lack of a minor league season in 2020, Pinto and Stallings have little or no professional track record.