How Will He Thrive in Twenty-Five?: Sean Manaea

[Edgy MD]

Kodai Senga was supposed to carry the most water in 2024, but when he went down early in the spring, it was Sean Manaea who picked up Senga's bucket and carried it for most of the season. So naturally, when the Mets brought him back, it was Manaea who went down early this spring.

That's hopefully only part of the story for this hirsute and heavily tattooed lefthander. Clearly ZIPS had already been expecting a fallback year if they were already predicting fewer fWAR for Seannie than for Jared Young even before he got hurt, but we're in that in-between region where he may be back in two weeks or he may never be seen again. So many opinions from people who just don't know.

But you know. So it is you we are asking: How will Sean Manaea thrive in Twenty-Five?

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[MFS62]

24 starts 12-9 3.80

Anything more than that and I will be pleasantly surprised.

Later

[Cowtipper]

Manaea had legit All-Star potential back in the day and seems to have righted the ship. I'm guessing he'll do better than '24. 14-5, 3.20 ERA, 121 ERA+, similar K/9 as last year, 190 IP.

[metirish]

DiComo reports that Sean got clean MRI results ( right oblique strain) and began playing catch this week

[Frayed Knot]

I think that to properly prep for the season we should all start playing catch this week.

[MFS62]

He's been shut down again.

Healing isn't progressing as fast as they'd hoped.

Later