"Don Wakamatsu became the first Asian-American manager in major league baseball history when he was hired Wednesday by the Seattle Mariners. The 14th manager in Mariners history, Wakamatsu was bench coach for the Oakland Athletics last season. Before that he spent five years with the Texas Rangers (ESPN)."
Well Wakamatsu enjoy your time in the sun, because it is going to be a tough job to turnaround this sad franchise. Seattle was horrible last year, but they do have some young players that could turn the team around. The question is...how long will it take? A lot of times coaches come into a job like this, and are fired right before the team is able to turn the corner. I think this guy can do it though, since he has seen Oakland build teams from the ground up.
-BMack
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