TEMPE, Ariz. -- Shortly after the Angels swung their big trade in the middle of November, their incumbent second baseman, Johnny Giavotella, went on YouTube and typed "Andrelton Simmons" into the search bar. Robust highlight packages from each of Simmons' three full seasons with the Braves instantly came up. So Giavotella clicked on a couple, to study the man he hoped to turn double plays with and, really, "to see what all the hype was about."
It didn't take long.
"Pretty amazing," Giavotella recalled. "I was kind of just amazed at how easily he was able to make difficult plays.