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How Blue Jays' Manoah took accountability and realized big-league dreams Alek Manoah explains how he found out he was getting called up to the Toronto Blue Jays to make his MLB debut. | May 26, 2021, 9:56 AM May 26, 2021, 9:56 AM TORONTO – During his college days with the West Virginia Mountaineers, Alek Manoah met often with head coach Randy Mazey. Sometimes, they talked about the way he was pitching. Other times, the way he was acting on the mound would come up. They’d discuss the future a fair bit, too. “I would always tell him that, ‘Hey, man, one day when you're starting agains...

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May 7, 2021 Last year, the arrival of the KBO was a breath of fresh air for our despondent, quarantined, and baseball-deprived selves. Between May and July, the entire baseball community became invested in a league that is in many ways different from MLB. There’s greater emphasis on contact hitting and baserunning, which recalled another, perhaps nostalgic, era of major league baseball for some. Sure, the defense and pitching could be clunky at times, but we embraced them as fun idiosyncrasies. And though baseball and a semblance of normalcy has returned stateside, there are still plenty of...

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