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Sean Manaea 2022 Player Outlook: Solid Mid-Round Selection With New Team
3 years agoSan Diego Padres pitcher Sean Manaea posted an 11-10 record, 3.91 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, and a career-high 194 strikeouts over 179 1/3 innings for the Oakland Athletics in 2021. The Padres acquired starting pitcher Sean Manaea and relief pitcher Aaron Holiday from the Athletics on Sunday in exchange for minor league infielder Euribiel Angeles and right-hander Adrian Martinez. Manaea joins San Diego's rotation, including Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove, Blake Snell, and Mike Clevinger. He owned a solid 25.7 K% but had trouble keeping the ball in the yard, evidenced by allowing a career-worst 1.25 HR:9 last season. He relied primarily on three pitches, a sinker, changeup, and curveball, to put hitters away. The 30-year-old could join the next tier of starters if he can continue to rack up the strikeouts, limit the home runs, and keep up his impressive low walk rate (last year's 5.4 BB% was in the 89th percentile). Cutter projects the lefty to own a 3.76 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 14 quality starts, and 165 strikeouts over 168 frames in 2022. According to Rotoballer's Expected Draft Values, Cutter's projections for Manaea put him roughly fair value at his ADP of 125. Manaea is a solid mid-round pick that should provide stable ratios and excellent strikeout totals with his new team for fantasy managers in 2022.
