After celebrating Ceddanne Rafaela’s walk-off Pesky Pole homer against the Angels, was anyone else impressed by his English-language interview on the field after the game?

I sure was.

Ceddy is from Curaçāo, where it’s common to speak several languages. In fact, he speaks four . His first language is Papiamento , but it wouldn’t be surprising if he’d opted to speak to Jahmai Webster through a Spanish interpreter, like many ballplayers do, since he speaks Spanish fluently.

For the last decade, MLB teams have been required to hire at least two Spanish interpreters . It makes a lot of sense to do that internally, for instruction, business, and team building, and it’s also common to use interpreters in a public-facing way. Interpreters reached a new level of notoriety last season of co

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