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Appreciation for Ceddanne Rafaela’s English interview skills

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 Curaçu0101o, 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.