Question about Matt Shoemaker

[Stradling]

That sucks.  

[Glen]

WTG, @Stradling

[m0nkey]

Good job strad

[Glen]

[Stradling]

Yea I’m an asshole.  

[Docwaukee]

wow.  poor shoe.  

[UndertheHalo]

Shoemaker and his wife seem like good people and I’m sorry for him.  When he’s healthy he’s a nice arm to have.  He’s definitely an easy guy to root for.  And I will root for him. But he’s not healthy very often.  Ability to stay healthy is an under appreciated thing among sports fans.  It’s also an extremely important thing.  Shoemaker just didn’t demonstrate an ability to do it.  And here he goes again in Toronto.  I get that stuff like this is unlucky.  But it just keeps happening.  The Angels were right to move on.  And they got lucky to be rid of Richards.  

Damn, tho.  Shoemaker was putting in decent work for my fantasy squad.  Hopefully not a major issue.  But it doesn’t sound good. 

Edited April 20, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[Glen]

All terrible jokes aside, this sucks.

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Shoemaker leaves with apparent left leg injury

[tdawg87]

32 minutes ago, Stradling said:

That sucks.  

[Taylor]

Strad, you just sent another pitcher on my fantasy team to the IL.

[Lou]

7 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Strad, you just sent another pitcher on my fantasy team to the IL.

if it's not too much trouble, can you please pick up Harvey and Allen? 

[mulwin444]

6 hours ago, Griffey's Corner said:

Great lets aspire to be as great as the Royals.

 

You guys seriously overrate the job Eppler has done.... or you have to say nice things because your job requires it. In 2014 Shoemaker went 16-4 with an ERA of 3.04 and was a huge reason the Angels won 99 games. That was a long time ago..... But so was Harvey's last good year. And yet you pay Harvey 11-14 million and let Shoemaker go for peanuts.... nice loyalty. Shoemaker has a better track record in his career than Harvey does. In production and in staying healthy. 

 

It's not just "Oh it does not matter, it's only 1 year, we will be done with his contract soon.... it was worth a shot." By signing him you end up playing him and he actually contributes to more losses. It's not worth a shot. Eppler spent a lot of money this off-season on a bunch of crap. Instead go and get one good proven player and fill in the rest with the young guys that everyone here says are so great.

 

It is not just the Harvey signing.... Eppler has been awful at just about every player he has brought in on the big league level.

 

The Angels did nothing but win before Eppler showed up and have done nothing but lose since he got here. Every year the Angels have one of the highest payrolls in baseball but with Eppler they have never even had a .500 season.

 

75-87

80-82

80-82

8-12.

 

The farm ONLY matters if it helps the ML team win....  no one cares if the single A team wins. Eppler may have done a good job with the farm.... but NO ONE knows yet. Rankings of farm systems do not mean anything. It gives you hope for the future but that is it. And based on how Eppler evaluates ML talent should not give anyone a lot of confidence in the farm until they actually come up here and play good baseball at the highest level.

In case you didn't want to read all this nonsense, here's the TL;DR:

[UndertheHalo]

17 minutes ago, mulwin444 said:

In case you didn't want to read all this nonsense, here's the TL;DR:

 

[Angels_Make_Me_Drink]

Damn that sucks. I feel bad for him. 

[TroutBaseball]

3 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

 even if he doesn’t pitch another inning. 

Did you hit "submit" before, during, or after the run down in which he got injured?

[Tank]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

Strad, you just sent another pitcher on my fantasy team to the IL.

You should pick up a few more Astros and Red Sox.

[vlad27]

I watched the footage of the Shoemaker injury - looks like they barely made contact - players sure are fragile these days - I’ve always liked Shoe and wish him the best - would’ve rather he stayed an Angel then the Harvey experiment 

[OregonLAA]

ACL. Done for the year. Was really rooting for him too 

[Taylor]

That's horrible. Really sad for Shoe.

[Lou]

$122k/inning

thanks, Eppy!

[Lou]

the results of the poll when he sustained the injury were: 

Option A -  8

Option B -  7 

 

dumbasses 

[Make Angels Great Again]

This Facking blows.

I'm genuinely upset for him.

[ScottT]

That's a shame. He's had some terrible luck.

[Tank]

if it weren't for bad luck he'd have no luck at all.