Appreciation for Ceddanne Rafaela’s English interview skills

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesAfter 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 Curaç\u0101o, 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…