Red Sox’s Verdugo says Blue Jays’ Manoah ‘goes about it the wrong way’

Boston Red Sox slugger Alex Verdugo is a fan of emotion in baseball. But he says Toronto Blue Jays ace Alek Manoah “goes about it the wrong way.”

Speaking on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast, Verdugo mentioned he thinks it’s good for baseball when gamers have fun huge moments with teammates. But he singled out Manoah — a pitcher recognized for yelling towards residence plate after strikeouts — as somebody who crosses the road.

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“If it’s a genuine reaction and it’s for the boys, not directed towards somebody, then yeah (it’s fine),” Verdugo mentioned. “Like, I’ll say it proper now, I believe Alek Manoah goes about it the fallacious approach, 100 per cent I believe he does. You can discover movies of him, footage of him in triple-A going like this to hitters. Last yr, telling Franchy and Bobby like go sit, (expletive) like that and searching proper at them.

“So, it’s like, like that just pisses me off. It’s not the way it should be played. It should be played like you’re celebrating it with your team, you’re not (expletive) disrespecting another player who is — at the end of the day, we’re just trying to compete, that’s it.”

Verdugo was particularly referencing a recreation in July when Manoah appeared to fireside insults to Red Sox batters after putting them out.

Manoah additionally had a short feud with Gerrit Cole in 2022 after the New York Yankees ace yelled from the dugout after the Jays right-hander hit Aaron Judge with a pitch.

After that recreation, Cole mentioned he was extra upset by the hit-by-pitch than at Manoah himself, however added, “He wasn’t yelling at us today.”

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