Wakamatsu to be next manager? - 美國職棒

已經確定了，水手下任的教頭就是: Don Wakamatsu

根據Seattle Times的 Geoff Baker

球隊內部是有不少人喜歡老水手Cora，不過最終決定權在GM 傑克身上
而在老闆簽字同意後，最後由Wakamatsu出任

Wakamatsu是第一位亞裔的大聯盟教練，不過他是第四代的日藉移民
所以已經幾乎不會講日文了

正式記者會應該會美國時間明早才舉行



http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/2008/11/18/
wakamatsu_gets_job.html

Wakamatsu gets job

Expect an announcement by tomorrow morning, but Don Wakamatsu is the new
manager of the Mariners. An insider source just called and told me that the
six other candidates will be advised shortly that they did not get the job
and that Wakamatsu is the guy. Yes, King 5 anchor Paul Silvi gets credit for
the initial "scoop" that Wakamatsu was the front-runner. The hiring is now
going down. The team has signed off on the decision.

There were people within the Mariners organization who favored Joey Cora for
the job. But in the end, Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik got total say over the
decision and Wakamatsu was his man. In the end, the team's ownership, Hiroshi
Yamauchi, Chris Larson and others, did have to approve the choice. But it's
now done.

Zduriencik has gone into quiet mode and won't be addressing the media today.
He's been really good with the updates until now, so it seems his next update
will be that a new manager has been named.

Wakamatsu is the first major-league manager of Asian descent, his father
being a third generation Japanese-American born in a detention camp near the
California-Oregon border during the World War II. But this may not mean much
on the language front, since Wakamatsu himself admits he only speaks a
smattering of that tongue.

Some of you will note that Wakamatsu was once a major-league catcher. He was
also one in the minors at Class AAA Tacoma in the Mariners' organization in
the 1990s. This is nothing unusual, as many catchers go on to become
managers. It's a position that helps them see the entire game, from a broader
perspective than others may have. in my 11 seasons of covering major league
ball, I've covered two managers who were coaches at the major-league level --
Buck Martinez and John Gibbons -- and one, John McLaren, who caught at Class
AAA.

(僅摘錄有關教練的部份)

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