The first thing you need to know about being an interpreter for an Asian MLB player is 'speaking is only about 10 percent of the job.' The second thing you need to know is that if you do it long enough, you’ll probably end up in a hospital at some point.
job working with Choi after that, and spent much of his first year getting to know Choi at restaurants or at Choi’s apartment, where he’d cook South Korean food.
Akasaki remembers, in the pre-analytics days, getting an Excel or Word document from the scouting department on opposing hitters. It was his job to decipher it and then get the message to Nomo or Ishii about how to get Barry Bonds out. Now with heat maps and video advances, it’s much easier to point to zones and bridge the language barrier.
Mizuhara also trains with Ohtani. He’s caught his bullpens at times, and served as Ohtani’s catcher in the Home Run Derby. He said part of his job is helping Ohtani minimize distractions and balance his offseason schedule of marketing and endorsements. “You always have to stick with the players,” Park said. “Now, with two players, I have to be there whenever they’re going to need me, and I don’t know when they’re going to need me.”
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