| Well, there's some changes coming for the Mariners:
-Vidro is going to the bench where he belongs;
-Guillen is moving to LF, Ibanez to DH;
-AAA stud Adam Jones is coming up and will be the everyday right fielder.
As far as Ichiro not speaking English goes; the general suspicion is that he understands English just fine, but feels he can express himself better with Japanese through a translator rather than his (supposedly less-good) spoken English.
Plus, well, he gets bashed in the media regularly for not acting like a Caucasian player would, so I don't blame him for not going out of his way to make their jobs easier. |