Terry Collins to manage Buffaloes?
It was not that long ago that a Japanese baseball team headed by a foreign manager was unthinkable. The success of Chiba Lotte Marines skipper Bobby Valentine last year and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Trey Hillman this year, however, seems to have shattered that taboo for good.
Now we get word that former Houston Astros and Anaheim Angels manager Terry Collins may be at the helm of the Orix Buffaloes next season. Orix is denying that anything has been decided yet.
Collins [h]as enjoyed success at the big-league level, posting a 444-434 mark in a six-year career in which his teams finished second in their respective division all but one time.
Collins later managed at Triple-A Las Vegas, an affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was promoted to director of player development for the club, and he was a candidate to replace Jim Tracy as Dodgers manager when Tracy was released after the end of the 2005 season.
I wonder if the Yomiuri Giants will ever go gaijin. . .
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that in ancient china if you were REALLY fat that meant you were...
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Last I checked, the Hiroshima Carp manager was from the States as well. Makes some sense to me, since every team seems to have a couple foriegn players, why not a manager? So long as the perception exists that MLB is a higher-status playing field, the managers should be just as desirable as the players.
I’d love to see Sadaharu Oh come to the States and manage though. That would totally ruin that obnoxious segment during the game where the manager has to talk to the play-by-play guys DURING THE GAME.
October 1st, 2006 at 5:28 amHow long ago was it “unthinkable”? Wally Yonamine (an American) was manager for the Chunichi Dragons from 1972 to 1977.
October 1st, 2006 at 5:29 pmHow long ago was it “unthinkable”?
Well. . . Since 1977, at least.
And a lot longer if you understand “foreign manager” to mean one without Japanese parents.
October 1st, 2006 at 11:09 pm