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Alek Manoah

2026
Angels· RHP · throws R· 7.1 IP· 9.82 ERA· 2.18 WHIP· 39 BF

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

Too few batters faced to grade

Alek Manoah has faced 39 batters this season. A rate built on that few swings wildly on a single result, so this page shows no grade and no comparison to the league average or the league best — there is nothing here those numbers could honestly be put next to.

A grade needs 40 batters faced. League averages and percentiles are measured over pitchers with at least 100 batters faced. What follows is what actually happened, with no grade attached to it.

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

Changeup
39%
84.0 mph
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cost 6.3 per 1004.0 total
Sinker
35%
87.7 mph
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cost 1.9 per 1001.1 total
Slider
not charted
14%
77.1 mph
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Four-Seam Fastball
not charted
12%
88.7 mph
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His slider and four-seam fastball aren't in the charts below — too few of each were tracked this season.

How to read this chart
What they throw, how hard, and what misses bats — from pitch tracking, regular season only.

Mix by batter side

Sinker
29% vs LHH
45% vs RHH
How to read this chart
How the mix shifts against lefty and righty bats.

By appearance

How the stuff has held up outing to outing

One point per outing — how his velocity, movement, and pitch mix have moved across the season, with league context for scale. Each pitch keeps the same color in every chart. His slider and four-seam fastball aren't in these charts — too few of each were tracked this season.

Contact allowed

What hitters do when they connect

Batters go to the pull side off him most often, and that's where the hardest contact comes from.

Pull and oppo are relative to each batter's stance, so this pools all the hitters he faced.

Batted balls allowed

Where every ball hit off Alek Manoah landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Mookie BettsHome run
EV 103 mph · LA 24° · EB 3.2
05/16 vs Dodgers
vs Kyle ManzardoDouble
EV 103 mph · LA 28° · EB 2.8
05/11 vs Guardians
vs Shohei OhtaniDouble
EV 112 mph · LA 19° · EB 2.5
05/16 vs Dodgers
vs Shohei OhtaniTriple
EV 90 mph · LA 25° · EB 1.9
05/16 vs Dodgers
vs Rhys HoskinsOut
EV 83 mph · LA 13° · EB 1.2
05/11 vs Guardians

Luck check

Burned once — a ball with a hit probability under 20% that found grass anyway.

vs Teoscar HernándezSingleCheap hit
EV 90 mph · LA -17° · EB 0.2 · xBA .134
05/16 vs Dodgers
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Times through order

What happens the third time they see him

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

His best outings this season by bases saved vs a replacement arm.

Multi-season trends · Alek Manoah

HR allowed% down, BB% up, K% down vs his previous season

Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.