Mike Wilner: ‘I’m ready to be a tiger:’ The Jays’ Alex Manoah finds the bounce in his step in Double-A
Nor did he look like the despondent hurler in the dugout the previous start, desperately trying to figure out how to get back to thinking “throw a strike here” instead of “don’t throw a ball.”with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, striking out 10 Portland Sea Dogs over five innings of work while allowing a run on three singles and three walks.
It was the first time we had seen Manoah, third in American League Cy Young voting last year, since the Jays sent him to the Florida Complex League almost a month ago. He had lasted just one-third of an inning in his last start, against Houston, and his ERA was up to 6.36, more than four runs higher than the previous season.
“I’m not going to make any excuses, I did get waffled. But I feel like there were a lot of positives that came out of it and another learning lesson. I’ve been taking a lot of those.” It has been a heck of a month for the 25-year-old Florida native, a first-rounder who only pitched 35 innings in the minors before dominating big-league hitters for almost two seasons.
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