To be as low as I was there and to be here now, it's such an incredible feeling to be able to persevere through all that, Manaea said. I'm super proud of myself for that.
True to form, Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns took a chance and added Manaea to a rotation of other reclamation projects most notably Luis Severino. It has paid off remarkably, especially on Tuesday night in Game 3 of the NLDS at Citi Field.
That night, he emailed Driveline an analytics-based performance training center to revamp his mechanics and his arsenal. That moment for me was rock bottom, pretty much, Manaea said.
Nearly two years after his rock-bottom moment, Manaea had one of, if not the best night of his nine-year career. And it happened to be against none other than the Phillies.
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