Over his last three starts, including his final rehab assignment, the Mets have not let Sean Manaea throw more than 73 pitches and that's by design.

A Major League Baseball player of American Samoan descent is about as rare as, well, a Samoan in a small Indiana town. Yet both descriptions apply to Oakland Athletics pitcher Sean Manaea, 27. His ...

The uncut surprises of Sean Manaea, the Samoan Hoosier who sings on the mound, named his glove ‘She-Hulk’ and has become the Mets’ steadiest pitcher By . Howie Kussoy.

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Manaea guesses that his father was “probably” in the vast minority of Indianans to come from a Polynesian heritage, and by the time Faaloloi and his wife had Sean, on Feb. 1, 1992, he’d been ...

Catcher Blake Sabol (Giants #33 prospect) and left-handed starter Sean Manaea became the first Samoan battery to appear in a regular-season MLB game. “Sean's half-Samoan.

On April 21, Sean Manaea of the Oakland Athletics became the 297th pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter, needing only 105 pitches to shut down the Boston Red Sox 3-0. The no-hitter has ...

Manaea's American Samoa-born father, Faaloloi, was stationed there after serving in the Vietnam War as a member of the United States Army. Faaloloi met his wife, Opal, in another nearby small town ...

LOS ANGELES — Welcome to the latest stop of the Sean Manaea redemption tour. The lefty entered these playoffs with a 15.26 ERA in three postseason games. In his first outing this October, he ...

“Sean Manaea was the only guy in the big leagues with Samoan heritage, so I always rooted for him,” said Sabol, who was a seventh-round pick of the Pirates in 2019 out of USC. “I know how ...

From brushing off an early-inning home run to no-hitting the hottest lineup on earth, Sean Manaea carries himself with quiet confidence. But that wasn't always the case. In the small town of ...