Blue Jays Notes: Cliff Pennington Joins Angels

The Toronto Blue Jays will have to look for infield depth elsewhere after Cliff Pennington accepted a 2-year deal from the Los Angeles Angels. The terms of the deal are as follows:

Pennington joins Andrelton Simmons in Los Angeles as they revamp the quality of their infield. With Johnny Giavotella being the only thing blocking Pennington from being a regular at 2B, you can see why this team would be attractive to him. The Angels are really stepping up efforts to improve their infield defensive abilities.

In Pennington, they add a player that has steadily been a slightly above-average defender while playing 4 different positions since 2012 (2B, SS, 3B, and LF). He knows the A.L. West extremely…