Marlins Take Leadership Role In Teaching Players Spanish

JUPITER (CBSMiami/AP) — There have been a lot of changes in and around the Miami Marlins since the new ownership regime took over in late 2017.

New Miami Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro showed up for the team’s first full-squad spring training workout wearing a T-shirt that read, “I talk (trash) about you in Spanish,” with a word more pungent and less publishable than “trash.”

The Marlins’ English speakers are onto him.

At the behest of CEO Derek Jeter, the Marlins last year began Spanish language classes for coaches, and the program has since been expanded throughout the organization, from media relations to analytics to the front office. Now minor league players who speak English are being…