Bobby Valentine to manage Nationals?
この話は未だあまり報道されていないようですが、千葉ロッテマリーンズの元監督のバレンタイン氏がWashington Nationalsの次期監督の有力候補になっているとMLB.comが伝えています。彼の人を引きつける人柄や日本語を一生懸命学んだ学ぶ姿勢は母国でも高く評価されているようです。Valentine is widely respected as having a gifted intellect and a keen baseball mind. His interests go beyond the sport, which makes him somewhat of anomaly among the traditional baseball set. And most of all he has a hunger to learn, a characteristic that was exhibited in his stints as manager of Chiba Lotte. After all, he taught himself to read, write and converse in Japanese, a very difficult language.(MLB.com)