Don’t get me wrong, Mike Fiers has been good since May began. No one is denying that. You can’t take away a man’s 2.74 ERA over his last ten starts. Has he been “holding the Angels to 4 runs over 18.2 innings pitched in 2019” good? Maybe. I will admit that I don’t care enough to be certain. Again though, Mike Fiers has been good.
That being said, Mike Fiers is not a lefty. He is not a strikeout king. He is not excellent at home run prevention. He is not altogether opposed to walking and hitting a few guys.