NewsWhore
04-02-2008, 05:10 PM
The Dominican Republic has chosen the legendary Felipe Rojas Alou to manage the Dominican team at the World Baseball Classic set for March 2009. The first round of the tournament will be played in Puerto Rico.
Stanley Javier is general manager of the team. Felipe Alou dreams of adding a WBC championship to his long list of achievements during his half century-long career in baseball. The DR placed third in the 2007 first WBC, behind Japan and Cuba. Alou began his baseball career with the Dominican amateur team that won the Pan American gold in Mexico in 1955. A successful ball player, in recent years he successfully managed the Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants.
As reported in Listin Diario, Alou said that the DR's third place in 2007 was the result of a lack of preparation by the team members who did not recognize the great responsibility they had undertaken.
The DR is the first team to announce its manager for the WBC. The challenge now is to assemble a dream team for the DR, because it is expected that few of the world's best Dominican players would say no to Alou. At a press conference yesterday, Stanley Javier said that most Dominican MLBs are willing to join the team if invited. He said that the 2009 WBC would not catch the Dominican team unprepared, as happened in 2007 when the players thought that the event would be played as exhibition games. Javier said that this time they would organize training camps in coordination with Junior Noboa so that pitchers could warm up and be ready. He said that David Ortiz has urged his fellow Dominicans to take things seriously this time around.
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Stanley Javier is general manager of the team. Felipe Alou dreams of adding a WBC championship to his long list of achievements during his half century-long career in baseball. The DR placed third in the 2007 first WBC, behind Japan and Cuba. Alou began his baseball career with the Dominican amateur team that won the Pan American gold in Mexico in 1955. A successful ball player, in recent years he successfully managed the Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants.
As reported in Listin Diario, Alou said that the DR's third place in 2007 was the result of a lack of preparation by the team members who did not recognize the great responsibility they had undertaken.
The DR is the first team to announce its manager for the WBC. The challenge now is to assemble a dream team for the DR, because it is expected that few of the world's best Dominican players would say no to Alou. At a press conference yesterday, Stanley Javier said that most Dominican MLBs are willing to join the team if invited. He said that the 2009 WBC would not catch the Dominican team unprepared, as happened in 2007 when the players thought that the event would be played as exhibition games. Javier said that this time they would organize training camps in coordination with Junior Noboa so that pitchers could warm up and be ready. He said that David Ortiz has urged his fellow Dominicans to take things seriously this time around.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)