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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Here's a name to remember as the 2016 season nears: Sean Manaea. The Oakland Athletics obtained the 6-foot-5 lefty from the Kansas City Royals last summer in the Ben Zobrist trade, and he's ...

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 ...

MESA, Ariz. — If you don’t know who Sean Manaea is, manager Bob Melvin said Sunday, “look for the hair.” The A’s top pitching prospect, in camp for the first time after coming from ...

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 ...

Barring a last minute scratch, catcher Blake Sabol (Giants #33 prospect) and left-handed starter Sean Manaea will become the first Samoan battery to appear in a regular-season MLB game.

“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 ...