Should I talk about the elephant in the room up front? Signing Simmons to a big league deal (it’s not HUGE money, but it’s real money) is about as strong as a suggestion can get that the Cubs don’t believe they have a real shot at Carlos Correa. He’s not being signed for his bat, but it’s nevertheless worth noting that he likely isn’t going to give you much on that front.Īt $4 million, Simmons doesn’t really impact the budget too much, though it’s more than you’d give a guy if you were only thinking of him as a “let’s give him a shot in Spring Training” type. The bat has trended to about as rough as it can get (one of the worst in baseball last year by almost every metric. No one should be wholly caught off-guard by this move, since we’ve been talking about it for months! With a starting rotation that figures to pitch to contact – much of it on the ground – and with an infield that would otherwise look a little questionable defensively, we knew the Cubs were going to want to add an impact glove, and shortstop is obviously the ideal place to do it.
Simmons, 32, is the kind of glove first-first-first shortstop we’d been thinking the Cubs could be looking to target, either as the starter at short, or as a guy in a rotation. Here’s the scoop from Ken Rosenthal, and Jon Heyman with the terms:Ĭubs closing in on free-agent shortstop Andrelton Simmons, source tells Ken Rosenthal March 11, 2022Īndrelton Simmons to Cubs.
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