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By Hunt Palmer
Chase Shores is headed to Anaheim.
After a three-year stint in Baton Rouge that included the lowest of lows and the highest of highs, Shores is a second-round pick of the Angels.
The towering Texan was removed from the weekend rotation midway through SEC play this year. Soon after, Shores surged in the postseason as LSU’s primary reliever. He pitched in four of LSU’s five College World Series games and fired the final pitch of the season to clinch the national championship.
Using that high-90s fastball that reached 102 this year, Shores struck out 70 in 63.2 innings as a redshirt sophomore coming off Tommy John Surgery.
Shores will likely be given an opportunity to start in professional ball, but his floor is a high-leverage reliever with a 100 mph sinker and a plus slider that he featured down the stretch for the Tigers.
The slot value for the No. 47 pick is $2,079,700. Shores, with a year of leverage in his back pocket, could command more than that.
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