It's been a struggle for much of 2023 for Alek Manoah, but the Blue Jays hurler has been better than the Orioles' Grayson Rodriguez. KennyDucey’s expect Toronto to take advantage of that.
, but every start is a new opportunity to turn things around. The highly-touted righty had seemed to be doing just that with a string of three good starts, only to allow eight earned in his next two starts, taking him across 8 2/3 innings. He walked a whopping seven batters and struck out just four in a stunning reversal of what we’ve seen for years.
It’s unclear just what’s troubling Manoah, but it’s obvious his sinker is not working. Despite all the poor numbers, he’s allowed a .319 xBA on the pitch to just a .232 real-life batting average, though the silver lining here is that his ground ball rate is actually up a tick from 38.4% last year to 39.2% this season.
So, Manoah is just giving up slightly more hard-hit balls, and striking out fewer hitters while walking many more. It’s not a situation that’s impossible to recover from, and theWe will get intobelow, but I do not like him one bit, at least as presently advertised. He has had similar issues to Manoah in the walk department, and is giving up hard-hit ball after hard-hit ball. I think at the very least the pitching matchup is equal, so the better offense makes sense for a bet here.
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