The next meeting between the Red Sox and Blue Jays could be a bit more heated.
Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo has never been one to avoid speaking his mind, nor does he ordinarily disapprove of raw emotion spilling out on the diamond.
But in an interview with the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast this week, Verdugo didn’t hold back when it came to disapproving Toronto ace Alek Manoah’s cadence on the mound.
Manoah drew the ire of the Red Sox last season, headlined by a sequence last July when he told both Franchy Cordero and Bobby Dalbec to “sit the [expletive] down” after striking them out.