QUEENS, N.Y. — Sean Manaea was always hesitant to leave his comfort zone.
Even during his college days at Indiana State University when teammates would try to show him a new pitch, the experimentation period was always brief for the now 32-year-old southpaw.
That changed last season when the nine-year veteran was demoted from the San Francisco Giants starting rotation to the bullpen after posting a 7.96 ERA across his first eight appearances of 2023. “When you struggle and you’re trying to figure stuff out, sometimes you reach for random things,” Manaea said. “I remember watching Trevor Bauer’s video on how he threw his slider one night and I was like, ‘OK, I have to try that out.'”
“It feels weird because I’ve tried that before, like a grip which was the way he kind of described it… and I was like ‘OK, that kind of makes sense,'” Manaea said. “Then there has been a slow evolution from there. The way I would describe it now is throwing it with the same grip but with a different velocity and path.
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