Heart melting :Former Atlanta braves and a Four-time Gold Glover pen down his retirement on Instagram…

Heart melting :Former Atlanta braves and a Four-time Gold Glover pen down his retirement on Instagram…

Andrelton Simmons made his official retirement announcement on Tuesday

through an Instagram post by ISE baseball, following 11 seasons with four

different teams. In July 2022, Simmons, 34, made his MLB debut as a Chicago Cubs player.

After being selected by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 2010 MLB Draft out of Western Oklahoma

State College, Simmons began his career with the team. Two years later in ’12, he made his Major League Baseball debut

with Atlanta, hitting.289 in 49 games. Simmons made his public debut in 2013 when he recorded a career-high 17 home

runs with 59 RBIs, won his first career Gold Glove, and placed 14th in the NL MVP voting.

Simmons signed a seven-year, $58 million contract extension with Atlanta

as a result of his performance, which set a new record for players with fewer than two years of service time.

After hitting.265 in 2015 and winning his second career Gold Glove in 2014,

Simmons was traded to the Angels during the offseason as the Braves began their rebuild. In 2017, Simmons had his

best season as an Angel, hitting.278 with 14 home runs and 69 RBIs. In addition, he was worth 20 outs above average,

which enabled him to win three Gold Gloves in his career. In 2018, he was selected as the down-ballot MVP for the

second consecutive year (.292 average, 75 RBIs), and he also won his fourth Gold Glove.

After battling injuries in 2019 and 2020 (hitting.271 in 133 games during those

two seasons), he played for the Twins in 2021 and the Cubs in 2022. In the 2023

World Baseball Classic, the Curacao native went 2-for-11 while playing for the Netherlands. Over the course of his

11-year career, he amassed a batting average of.263 in more than 4,400 at-bats.

With 201 defensive runs saved in his career, Simmons holds the record for the

most career defensive runs saved of any shortstop in Major League Baseball. He will be remembered as one of the

greatest defensive shortstops in MLB history, having four seasons with a DRS value in excess of 20.

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