Sean Manaea
P | B/T: R/L | 6' 5" 245LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2013 | Rd: CB-A, #34, Kansas City Royals | Indiana State

Stats

W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2022 8 9 4.96 30 28 0 158.0 156 1.30
7 Seasons 58 50 4.06 159 156 0 885.0 797 1.22
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2022 30 8-9 4.96 158.0 156 1.30
7 Seasons 159 58-50 4.06 885.0 797 1.22

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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2016 24 2169 429 29 6.8 4.9 89.9 113.6 11.7 31.0 .253 .440 .306 .321 .382 38.9 20.9 6.2 3.86 4.37
2017 25 2688 486 28 5.8 4.1 89.4 116.2 12.6 32.3 .264 .426 .329 .329 .375 41.2 20.3 7.8 4.37 4.70
2018 26 2371 506 40 7.9 6.1 89.5 116.2 12.1 31.6 .262 .452 .287 .329 .372 39.7 16.5 4.7 3.58 4.63
2019 27 444 70 3 4.3 2.8 89.5 109.9 16.9 32.9 .215 .366 .224 .281 .347 37.1 27.5 6.4 1.21 3.43
2020 28 812 168 12 7.1 5.4 90.6 110.9 9.4 28.6 .266 .415 .309 .306 .368 44.6 20.3 3.6 4.50 3.96
2021 29 2980 510 41 8.0 5.4 90.2 115.3 13.3 34.5 .249 .419 .310 .312 .393 41.2 25.7 5.4 3.91 4.12
2022 30 2482 462 42 9.1 6.3 90.3 113.3 16.3 32.7 .240 .407 .330 .312 .376 42.9 23.3 7.3 4.96 4.05
Player 13946 2631 195 7.4 5.3 89.9 116.2 13.1 32.2 .253 .426 .310 .318 .378 40.9 21.6 6.1
MLB 6.7 4.6 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 35.8 22.1 8.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Manaea relies on 4 pitches.
Sinker
(60.9%) ,
Changeup
(24.5%) ,
Slider
(13.4%) ,
Curveball
(1.2%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2016 45.9 20.5 26.6 7.0 36.8 37.3 25.9 2.8 32.4 22.4 24.0 6.8 6.8 4.9
2017 44.2 24.5 24.9 6.4 33.1 41.8 25.1 3.1 32.5 24.9 28.2 5.1 5.8 4.1
2018 46.0 23.9 21.9 8.1 37.7 35.6 26.3 3.4 33.2 23.9 22.3 6.3 7.9 6.1
2019 41.4 21.4 22.9 14.3 31.4 45.7 22.9 5.7 27.1 31.4 24.3 7.1 4.3 2.8
2020 50.6 19.6 23.2 6.5 38.1 36.9 25.0 4.2 35.7 20.8 26.8 4.2 7.1 5.4
2021 42.7 24.7 24.9 7.6 36.9 40.2 22.9 4.7 30.0 24.7 24.7 7.8 8.0 5.4
2022 38.7 30.7 22.1 8.4 41.6 35.3 23.2 3.2 29.0 29.0 23.4 5.8 9.1 6.3
Player 43.9 24.5 23.9 7.6 37.1 38.2 24.6 3.6 31.6 24.9 24.7 6.3 7.4 5.3
MLB 44.9 23.1 25.0 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.8 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.7 6.7 4.6
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2022 Slider SD L 332 81.5 39.0 -0.5 -1 3.9 -5.5 -59
2022 Changeup SD L 609 84.9 31.2 -1.2 -4 13.0 -1.7 -11
2022 Sinker SD L 1,508 91.2 20.7 -2.5 -11 13.2 -1.2 -8
2022 Curveball SD L 30 77.2 45.1 -9.8 -18 12.7 0.3 2
2021 Slider OAK L 447 82.8 37.1 -1.8 -5 4.4 -3.2 -42
2021 Curveball OAK L 21 78.2 44.0 -9.8 -18 14.9 3.7 33
2021 Sinker OAK L 1,786 92.1 20.1 -1.6 -7 13.8 -0.4 -3
2021 Changeup OAK L 724 84.5 31.7 0.7 2 12.2 -1.4 -10
2020 Sinker OAK L 439 90.4 23.1 -1.2 -5 12.4 -1.7 -12
2020 Slider OAK L 116 77.4 46.5 1.0 2 6.3 -4.7 -43
2020 Changeup OAK L 228 82.5 37.9 4.6 14 7.1 -5.8 -45
2020 Cutter OAK L 26 84.4 32.2 -0.9 -3 4.4 0.9 26
2019 Slider OAK L 94 79.3 42.8 -0.7 -2 1.1 -8.6 -89
2019 Curveball OAK L 2 78.7 47.4 -6.9 -13 9.8 -1.3 -12
2019 Changeup OAK L 66 81.0 39.3 5.6 17 11.7 -1.9 -14
2019 Sinker OAK L 282 89.8 22.6 -2.4 -10 11.3 -3.0 -21
2018 Curveball OAK L 4 75.9 56.6 -1.4 -2 8.6 -2.2 -20
2018 Sinker OAK L 1,318 90.4 23.2 -0.5 -2 14.3 0.0 0
2018 Changeup OAK L 733 82.4 40.2 7.2 22 9.3 -4.1 -31
2018 Slider OAK L 291 78.1 45.4 0.4 1 1.8 -7.2 -80
2017 Sinker OAK L 1,558 91.7 21.8 -0.2 -1 14.1 -0.9 -6
2017 Slider OAK L 465 79.9 42.6 1.4 3 2.1 -5.7 -73
2017 Changeup OAK L 654 83.4 39.0 8.1 26 8.7 -4.7 -35
2016 Slider OAK L 275 80.5 42.6 2.9 7 0.3 -6.8 -96
2016 Changeup OAK L 594 85.1 36.9 7.6 26 12.9 0.0 0
2016 4-Seamer OAK L 1,222 92.9 21.0 -5.9 -39 18.1 10.3 132
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2022 Sinker 0.3 5 1,511 60.9 391 .239 .427 .324 23.0 22.8 20.6 .239 .416 .321 44.7
2022 Changeup 1.8 11 609 24.5 189 .301 .528 .366 28.8 23.8 22.1 .257 .436 .323 44.4
2022 Slider 0.3 1 332 13.4 83 .218 .436 .303 28.2 22.9 19.8 .214 .323 .256 33.3
2022 Curveball 1.0 0 30 1.2 7 .167 .167 .229 50.0 42.9 23.1 .179 .201 .245 0.0
2021 Sinker -0.1 -2 1,787 60.0 438 .273 .463 .343 25.0 26.0 19.3 .266 .469 .339 45.2
2021 Changeup -1.4 -10 725 24.3 213 .238 .327 .270 31.2 23.0 17.9 .228 .337 .268 38.3
2021 Slider 0.5 2 447 15.0 100 .209 .385 .306 27.4 30.0 19.1 .221 .380 .292 30.6
2021 Curveball 1.9 0 21 0.7 3 .333 .667 .417 37.5 33.3 10.0 .270 .301 .261 0.0
2020 Sinker 0.6 2 441 54.3 121 .296 .443 .345 15.7 15.7 17.6 .286 .445 .333 53.1
2020 Changeup -1.6 -4 229 28.2 64 .220 .271 .237 29.5 21.9 18.2 .242 .317 .259 34.0
2020 Slider 4.0 5 116 14.3 27 .296 .741 .444 25.9 33.3 19.1 .275 .583 .356 38.9
2020 Cutter -2.0 -1 26 3.2 10 .200 .300 .215 28.6 30.0 37.5 .154 .196 .153 14.3
2019 Sinker -2.8 -8 282 63.5 69 .145 .258 .225 24.6 20.3 17.9 .251 .457 .337 35.4
2019 Slider -1.1 -1 94 21.2 25 .250 .417 .302 34.8 40.0 33.3 .174 .245 .199 50.0
2019 Changeup -2.5 -2 66 14.9 15 .071 .143 .130 34.4 40.0 24.0 .125 .170 .160 25.0
2019 Curveball 7.6 0 2 0.5 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Sinker -0.5 -7 1,318 55.6 379 .241 .420 .313 13.7 14.2 15.9 .277 .493 .352 42.2
2018 Changeup -0.5 -4 733 30.9 196 .208 .328 .277 27.6 16.8 15.9 .258 .429 .316 40.5
2018 Slider 0.3 1 291 12.3 70 .258 .379 .304 31.1 28.6 18.9 .197 .298 .242 21.7
2018 Curveball -1.2 0 4 0.2 2 .000 .000 .350 0.0 0.0 0.0 .070 .080 .381 0.0
2017 Sinker 0.2 3 1,559 58.0 408 .294 .456 .373 16.0 13.2 13.3 .288 .478 .364 41.7
2017 Changeup 1.3 9 654 24.3 161 .277 .473 .367 36.7 21.7 19.8 .282 .436 .337 45.1
2017 Slider -0.9 -4 465 17.3 121 .174 .278 .227 40.5 42.1 24.6 .164 .255 .203 31.3
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 Changeup 201 82.5 84 7.8 9:45 9:15 30
2020 Cutter 13 86.0 50 6.9 11:30 12:45 -75
2020 Sinker 389 90.3 92 16.3 10:30 10:15 15
2020 Slider 97 77.4 40 7.9 3:30 4:00 -30
2021 Changeup 696 84.5 95 14.2 10:15 9:45 30
2021 Curveball 13 78.0 41 15.4 3:30 3:15 15
2021 Sinker 1,766 92.2 97 18.5 10:30 10:15 15
2021 Slider 442 82.8 26 5.8 1:15 2:30 -75
2022 Changeup 579 84.8 96 15.2 10:15 9:45 30
2022 Curveball 29 77.3 36 13.3 3:30 3:00 30
2022 Sinker 1,496 91.2 99 18.1 10:15 10:15 0
2022 Slider 329 81.5 25 5.7 1:15 2:30 -75
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2016 2,169 51.1 68.7 83.6 34.7 54.6 43.8 65.0 52.1 24.9 8.0 74.0
2017 2,688 49.6 66.9 84.4 29.1 51.3 44.4 60.4 47.8 25.3 7.7 73.2
2018 2,371 54.4 69.2 85.7 29.4 61.1 42.8 64.5 51.2 20.0 8.7 76.1
2019 444 48.2 69.2 78.4 27.8 56.3 40.1 61.5 47.7 28.3 6.5 72.4
2020 812 50.9 69.5 85.4 27.1 57.4 44.6 64.9 48.6 22.0 7.5 70.5
2021 2,980 54.6 71.3 77.5 27.6 58.0 42.4 66.6 51.5 27.1 8.9 81.2
2022 2,482 53.5 72.4 79.3 27.2 58.6 44.1 63.9 51.4 25.5 8.3 82.4
Player 13,946 52.4 69.8 81.8 29.2 56.5 43.4 64.1 50.5 24.6 8.2 77.2
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.3 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.7 7.2 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2016 36 41 26 17 62 21 30 12 16 51 76 65 94 53 8 96
2017 31 25 36 43 27 17 52 6 2 38 50 57 67 35 5 87
2018 26 20 12 14 47 4 22 17 14 12 92 15 67 18 5 92
2019 11 3 91
2020 57 25 43 58 70 13 51 13 14 30 96 18 44 15 1 98
2021 50 36 36 40 64 6 47 18 29 62 87 58 46 32 6 99
2022 40 47 31 23 54 5 18 8 14 51 52 51 24 20 7 98
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.5 20 20.9 -1 8 15 10 50.0
2017 23.7 18 19.0 -1 16 14 8 44.4
2018 22.8 21 21.8 -1 11 17 8 38.1
2019 23.1 6 5.7 0 1 4 3 50.0
2020 24.0 9 9.1 0 5 5 5 55.6
2021 23.3 25 25.8 -1 9 18 11 44.0
2022 23.7 30 25.1 5 5 20 11 36.7
Player 23.3 129 127.4 2 55 93 56 43.4

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 20 22 25 17 21 23 21 21 24 20 20 18 16 18 21 24 21 24 18 23 28 15 17 19 21 24 24 18 18 20 26
2017 18 23 27 15 18 21 18 20 18 16 19 18 16 13 19 22 16 24 14 17 25 16 16 21 21 16 23 16 20 18 24
2018 21 22 26 19 22 23 19 30 23 18 19 22 14 19 19 24 20 28 19 19 23 20 20 21 23 24 28 17 26 16 30
2019 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 5 5 7 6 4 4 4 6 5 6 4 6 7 5 6 5 5 7 6 5 6 6 8
2020 9 8 13 8 8 8 0 9 9 11 13 8 8 7 8 10 9 10 7 8 9 9 8 10 10 10 9 8 10 6 12
2021 25 28 27 25 25 31 24 26 27 25 26 29 21 18 24 28 29 26 21 24 27 25 23 28 27 26 30 22 30 23 30
2022 30 23 30 24 25 30 28 18 28 25 25 21 19 20 21 32 32 28 23 23 33 23 22 24 23 27 27 21 27 20 31
Player 129 132 154 114 125 142 116 131 134 120 129 122 98 99 116 146 132 146 106 120 152 113 112 128 130 134 147 107 137 109 161
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 92.9 91.7 -1.2 ↓ 90.4 -1.3 ↓ 89.8 -0.6 ↓ 90 0.2 ↑ 92.1 2.1 ↑ 91.2 -0.9 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 85.1 83.4 -1.7 ↓ 82.4 -1 ↓ 81 -1.4 ↓ 82.5 1.5 ↑ 84.5 2 ↑ 84.9 0.4 ↑
Breaking Velocity 80.5 79.9 -0.6 ↓ 78.1 -1.8 ↓ 79.3 1.2 ↑ 77.4 -1.9 ↓ 82.6 5.2 ↑ 81.2 -1.4 ↓
Exit Velocity 89.9 89.4 -0.5 ↓ 89.5 0.1 ↑ 89.5 0 90.6 1.1 ↑ 90.2 -0.4 ↓ 90.3 0.1 ↑
Launch Angle 11.7 12.6 0.9 ↑ 12.1 -0.5 ↓ 16.9 4.8 ↑ 9.4 -7.5 ↓ 13.3 3.9 ↑ 16.3 3 ↑
Barrel % 6.8 5.8 -1 ↓ 7.9 2.1 ↑ 4.3 -3.6 ↓ 7.1 2.8 ↑ 8 0.9 ↑ 9.1 1.1 ↑
Hard Hit % 38.9 41.2 2.3 ↑ 39.7 -1.5 ↓ 37.1 -2.6 ↓ 44.6 7.5 ↑ 41.2 -3.4 ↓ 42.9 1.7 ↑
Sweet Spot % 31 32.3 1.3 ↑ 31.6 -0.7 ↓ 32.9 1.3 ↑ 28.6 -4.3 ↓ 34.5 5.9 ↑ 32.7 -1.8 ↓
xBA .253 .264 0.011 ↑ .262 -0.002 ↓ .215 -0.047 ↓ .266 0.051 ↑ .249 -0.017 ↓ .24 -0.009 ↓
BA .248 .268 0.02 ↑ .232 -0.036 ↓ .16 -0.072 ↓ .27 0.11 ↑ .255 -0.015 ↓ .254 -0.001 ↓
xwOBA .321 .329 0.008 ↑ .329 0 .281 -0.048 ↓ .306 0.025 ↑ .312 0.006 ↑ .312 0
wOBA .306 .329 0.023 ↑ .287 -0.042 ↓ .224 -0.063 ↓ .309 0.085 ↑ .31 0.001 ↑ .33 0.02 ↑
xSLG .44 .426 -0.014 ↓ .452 0.026 ↑ .366 -0.086 ↓ .415 0.049 ↑ .419 0.004 ↑ .407 -0.012 ↓
SLG .415 .427 0.012 ↑ .385 -0.042 ↓ .28 -0.105 ↓ .427 0.147 ↑ .415 -0.012 ↓ .455 0.04 ↑
K% 20.9 20.3 -0.6 ↓ 16.5 -3.8 ↓ 27.5 11 ↑ 20.3 -7.2 ↓ 25.7 5.4 ↑ 23.3 -2.4 ↓
BB% 6.2 7.8 1.6 ↑ 4.7 -3.1 ↓ 6.4 1.7 ↑ 3.6 -2.8 ↓ 5.4 1.8 ↑ 7.3 1.9 ↑
Swing % 52.1 47.8 -4.3 ↓ 51.2 3.4 ↑ 47.7 -3.5 ↓ 48.6 0.9 ↑ 51.5 2.9 ↑ 51.4 -0.1 ↓
Whiff% 24.9 25.3 0.4 ↑ 20 -5.3 ↓ 28.3 8.3 ↑ 22 -6.3 ↓ 27.1 5.1 ↑ 25.5 -1.6 ↓
In Zone % 51.1 49.6 -1.5 ↓ 54.4 4.8 ↑ 48.2 -6.2 ↓ 50.9 2.7 ↑ 54.6 3.7 ↑ 53.5 -1.1 ↓
Out of Zone % 48.9 50.4 1.5 ↑ 45.6 -4.8 ↓ 51.8 6.2 ↑ 49.1 -2.7 ↓ 45.4 -3.7 ↓ 46.5 1.1 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 34.7 29.1 -5.6 ↓ 29.4 0.3 ↑ 27.8 -1.6 ↓ 27.1 -0.7 ↓ 27.6 0.5 ↑ 27.2 -0.4 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 33.7 28.6 -5.1 ↓ 31.4 2.8 ↑ 26.6 -4.8 ↓ 30.2 3.6 ↑ 32.1 1.9 ↑ 33.7 1.6 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 65 60.4 -4.6 ↓ 64.5 4.1 ↑ 61.5 -3 ↓ 64.9 3.4 ↑ 66.6 1.7 ↑ 63.9 -2.7 ↓
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Statcast Shift Statistics

vs RHHvs LHH
YearPAwOBAPAShifts%PAShifts%
2016 572 .305 467 24 5.1 105 24 22.9
2017 685 .329 544 7 1.3 141 34 24.1
2018 653 .287 520 13 2.5 133 46 34.6
2019 109 .224 69 3 4.3 40 19 47.5
2020 222 .309 169 51 30.2 53 26 49.1
2021 754 .310 577 166 28.8 177 107 60.5
2022 667 .332 512 16 3.1 155 38 24.5

Pitch Tempo