Matt Shoemaker started his third season with the LA Angels going 1-4 with a 9.12 ERA. This earned him a demotion to the Ange Triple-A affiliate the Salt Lake City Bees. However, as fate would have it, Garrett Richards would get injured a few days later and after only 12 days in the minors Shoemaker was back up with the Angels.
“I just kind of refocused, this game is so much mental and every baseball player knows that. If you’re here and you’re physically ready to play and if you can mentally put it together you can play pretty well,” said Shoemaker in a late August interview I did with him.