Not sure if anyone else caught BNS appearance on Jays Talk Plus yesterday, but he cleared up a lot of the confusion surrounding the Manoah situation to the point where it's pretty easy to infer what's going on at this point.
Quote from BNS yesterday: "My understanding is Manoah's going to have some further testing done, that's going to happen sometime soon. Manoah has reported some physical symptoms related to his quad, back and knee and wants to get those checked out, and it sounds like the Blue Jays are on board with him getting those things checked out. But at this point no injury has been found, and Manoah is going to continue visiting specialists and see where that leads."
Before I continued listening to this BNS segment, my first thought immediately was "Manoah is just trying to find a specialist who will diagnose him with an injury so he can go on the IL and continue collecting major league pay and service time instead of grinding it out on that minors salary."
The very next part of the segment, Blake Murphy wonders why Manoah's camp hasn't pushed back against the Jays not putting him on IL if he's still reporting physical symptoms. BNS responds with "I'm not sure why you would assume that hasn't happened, I would think that it probably has happened already."
The Manoah mystery is over everyone. Manoah thinks he's too good to be grinding it out in the minors, is seeking out a specialist that is willing to diagnose him with something and is having trouble (because he isn't actually hurt he just thinks he's too good for the minors), and the Jays are challenging him to find a specialist who will say he's injured while they continue to (rightfully) play hardball with placing him on IL.
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