Baseball’s trade deadline is all about teams trying to find fits. Every now and then, the fits found are perfect.
The Angels dealt Gold Glove catcher Martin Maldonado to Houston last week for Sandoval, a 21-year-old left-hander who grew up in Orange County and starred at Mission Viejo High.
He couldn’t have been much more steady, which was notable for someone who, when he was told he’d been traded to the Angels, began shaking.
That’s certainly how it felt to his mother, Robin, who, when she heard the news, thought her son had to be joking.