OC Register: Matt Shoemaker, C.J. Cron have big days in Angels loss

[AngelsWin.com]

THE GAME: After each team was scoreless through the first four innings, the Angels’ bullpen was hit hard in an 8-4 to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday afternoon at Surprise Stadium. PITCHING REPORT: RP Matt Shoemaker had not only his best outing...

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[Troll Daddy]

4 innings 1 bb 3  k's 0 runs

 

[Second Base]

The more CJ Cron hits, the harder it will be for this team to justify playing Valbuena at 1B over Cron.

[Troll Daddy]

39 minutes ago, Scotty@AW said:

The more CJ Cron hits, the harder it will be for this team to justify playing Valbuena at 1B over Cron.

Money trumps talent 

[disarcina]

nice to see Shoemaker having a good outing and a good spring training.

if he can return to his 16 win form -- that would really help the rotation.

meanwhile, if we have starters pitching a quality 6 - 7 IP we need the pen to get at least 6 outs.

last year, if I remember correctly - the rotation did OK first half of the season but our pen faltered pretty much all season. Particularly the pre-set up and set up guys.

[Troll Daddy]

Let's hope Skaggs has a good outing manana. 

[disarcina]

Is Skaggs pitching tomorrow -- may have been a report from earlier - but I thought he was having arm issues and may have to re-set his ST regimen a bit.

If he's pitching tomorrow -- it'll be an important test/ outing for him.

 

[Ohtaniland]

Kudos to Shoemaker who's proving himself every outing. CJ Cron ( let him play ) also continues to develop into one of the pieces that should be around with Trout in the long haul. I think Valbuena is going to disappoint us with on and off nagging injuries. Keeping an eye on Skaggs today. If some of his first 15 pitches hit 91-93 mph and then start to tail off he's in trouble.

[Angel Oracle]

That was vintage 2014 and 2016 Shoe, huge to see.  

Cron is taking his hitting to another level hopefully.  Now, how is his defense progressing?