Gregor Chisholm: What’s wrong with Alek Manoah? Blue Jays starter’s struggles continue in loss to Yankees
these days is “What the heck happened to Alek Manoah?” It’s a quarter of the way through the season and nobody seems to have a clue.
“This game will punch you right in the mouth,” said Manoah, who allowed first-inning home runs to Aaron Judge and Willie Calhoun. “My job is to show up every day and give this team a chance. I do everything I can between starts, bullpens. I feel like everything is coming together, it’s just right now the game’s testing me. You find out who’s who when things aren’t going well.”
All this from a guy whose 1.01 WHIP entering the year was the second lowest all-time by an AL pitcher in his first two seasons, trailing only Walter Johnson’s 0.98 mark from 1907-08. The 0.99 WHIP he posted last season alone was the lowest franchise history, even better than the 1.03 Roger Clemens put up in his 1997 Cy Young-winning season.
“He’s working hard, he’s accountable and trying to find ways to be more consistent. I think it really just comes down to, the walks are a little up for him and more consistently being on the plate, executing in the zone, and we’ll see better results.” The main takeaway is that Manoah is getting himself into too many hitter’s counts and when he gets ahead, he’s struggled to put hitters away. That’s led to a lot of damage by opposing hitters.
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