Angels southpaw Reid Detmers is enjoying a breakout campaign as a starter. Returning to the rotation full time this season, Detmers has been particularly dominant at home where he has struck out 72 batters in 60.2 innings and has a microscopic WHIP of 1.04.The Angels are in an interesting spot with Detmers who would command a gold mine on the trade market. However, he is also under club control for two seasons after 2026 and could be a foundational piece as the Angels rebuild. I first met Reid at the Angels Play Ball clinic for youth baseball players and spoke with him the day after he blanked the Detroit Tigers over 7 frames. Here is the transcript of our talk from the Angels dugout.Reid Detmers giving a young fan a fist pump after tossing him soft toss. | Jeff JoinerReid, you are having an amazing season. Are you able to actually enjoy it on the mound or are you just pitch by pitch while you're out there?"It's pitch by pitch. I try not to think about everything going on all around me, I guess. It's kind of hard to explain. When you're in the moment you don't think about anything you're just trying to make the best pitch at that time."The pitch by pitch thing. Did moving the bullpen last year help you focus on just going pitch by pitch or have you always been that way?"I feel like I've always been that way. I might have gotten away from it a little bit. I would say the bullpen definitely helped, for sure just with attacking guys, always staying on the attack. I wouldn't say I was pitching around guys but I was going out of the zone a lot. I'd get to 0-1, 0-2 and then I would waste three pitches and then it would be 3-2 and I'd walk them. So it's more just kind of staying on the attack which I learned from the bullpen. Because you really don't want to give up baserunners when you're out the bullpen in a leverage role. So I would say taking that mentality into starting is helping a lot, especially with runners on.How old were you when you realized your curve ball just could not be hit by normal people?"(Chuckles) I didn't start throwing it until freshman year of high school, I would say. Once I started throwing it in games I knew it was something special." And then you went to Louisville. Did you have offers to go pro or did you always want to go to college?"Yeah, I had offers to go pro but at the time I knew I wanted to go to college. I knew I wanted to go there, experience the college lifestyle, try to go to Omaha. And we did go to Omaha.But just develop was the main thing. I knew I needed to get stronger. I needed to learn more about my body. Because in high school I didn't really know what I was doing, it was kind of just random workouts.But going to college really set the base and I knew what to do and how I did it and stuff like that. So i think it helped a lot."Louisville pitcher Reid Detmers (42) throws in the bottom of the first against Vanderbilt in the 2019 NCAA Men's College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Omaha, Neb.