Los Angeles Angels pitcher Matt Shoemaker is one of the most curious pitchers in all of baseball.
On days, he looks like he shouldn’t even be on the same field as Double-A guys, giving up run after run and getting chased in early innings.
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On other days, he pitches like an absolute ace, like a Clayton Kershaw or Jake Arrieta.
It wasn’t long ago that I wrote the right-hander may lose his spot in the rotation because of his string of treacherous performances, then he got as hot as a summer in Phoenix.