It's was always a tough decision. Do you get something small and risk him bouncing back, or do you hold on and get nothing? Having him in our org though, one would hope they had enough information on the cause of his struggles and likelihood of bouncing back that they could make a sound, informed gamble. Maybe they did use that inside info and ultimately it told them he was likely to bounce back. We'll never know.
Romero lasted longer than Manoah at his current rate, he had 3 decent seasons one of which was very good, then one bad season then he was gone. his bad season isn't even all that bad if you look at the numbers some pitchers are putting up today.
I think he came up thru the system so fast with so much success, that he never learned to deal with failure and recovery from failure. His cocky attitude didn't help, he was barking at veterans like he was the 2nd coming of Cy Young.
Baseball is littered with pitchers who blew the doors off the league early in their careers, only to then disappear almost as quickly as they had arrived. Most were due to injury (Fidrych, Mark Prior, Herb Score) but some, like Steve Blass and Mark Wohlers, just mysteriously lost the strike zone and couldn't ever find it consistently again. In Blass's case, tragically, not at all. I hope Manoah isn't destined for that ending.
Very true. Seemed like he was destined for greatness and had a great personality based off of that all star. Just like he was having so much fun and it was easy. Now it looks like me trying to make it to the majors. Really hope something clicks for him
"Call me Nuke"We just need him to sleep with Susan Sarandon then wear her lingerie under his uniform to help him concentrate.
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