Blue Jays Ace Alek Manoah Calls Gerrit Cole ‘Worst Cheater In Baseball History’

It ain’t Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire … no, according to Blue Jays ace Alek Manoah, the “worst cheater” in the history of the MLB is Yankees star Gerrit Cole.

The 24-year-old Toronto righty dropped the hot allegation while on Serge Ibaka‘s “How Hungry Are You?” reveal … in order to prevent consuming a cricket-filled, tea-like mixture.

“He cheated,” Manoah informed the NBA star without much doubt at all. “He used a lot of, like, sticky stuff to make his pitches better. And he kinda got called out on it.”

Back in 2021, the MLB notoriously started a crackdown on making use of foreign compounds on baseballs — and lots of around the league thought it actually impacted Cole, who some idea had actually depended on everything greatly.

In reality, Cole’s now-teammate, Josh Donaldson, particularly called out the right-hander when he was a Minnesota Twins, stating he might see Cole’s spin rates significantly drop following the league’s judgment.

Clearly, Manoah believes there’s some major reality behind the claims … though he didn’t assess even more throughout the program.

As for Cole’s handle everything, he never ever particularly rejected utilizing sticky things to make his baseballs move more … infamously informing media members in 2021, “I don’t quite know how to answer that, to be honest.”