What ethnicity is Sean Manaea? Is Manea a Samoan?

Sean Manaea is of Samoan ethnicity. Manaea’s father, Faaloloi, moved from American Samoa to Hawaii.

Sean Anthony Manaea was born on February 1, 1992, in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States of America.

In the Cape Cod Baseball League, Sean Manaea went 5–1 with a 1.22 earned run average (ERA) and a league-leading 85 strikeouts (setting the modern record for a single summer) in 51+2⁄3 innings pitched.

Sean Manaea played for the Oakland Athletics from 2016 to 2021 and the San Diego Padres in 2022.

The Oakland Athletics promoted Sean Manaea to the major leagues to make his debut on April 29, 2016.

On April 21, 2018, Manaea no-hit the Boston Red Sox 3–0 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, becoming the first Athletics pitcher to throw a no-hitter since 2010.

In 2022 with San Diego, Sean Manaea was 8–9 with a 4.96 ERA in 30 games (28 starts) in which he pitched 158 innings and struck out 156 batters.

On April 3, 2022, the Oakland Athletics traded Sean Manaea and Aaron Holiday to the San Diego Padres for Adrián Martínez and Euribiel Angeles.