Thursday, May 05, 2005
Hispanic Baseball Players Complaining About Translations Again
New York Mets center fielder Carlos Beltran complained to Associated Press about communication difficulties and blamed, you guessed it, teams for not doing enough translating:
Most of the guys that come from Latin America, it's hard for them to communicate with trainers or coaches. ... On every minor league team, there has to be a coach or two that speaks Spanish."
Beltran was joined in his complaints by David Ortiz: "I talked to the union and said that you have to have a meeting for the Latin players in our language."
Meanwhile, Washington Nationals center fielder Jose Guillen, who was born in the Dominican Republic, doesn't believe the language barrier is a problem:
"You can trust me on this — they all know what's going on and they're all aware," he said. "They've been watching the TV. It's been in the Dominican. It's been all over the place in Spanish and in English."
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