Brian Dozier learned Spanish to be a better teammate. There s a lesson for MLB.
Barry Svrluga, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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Brian Dozier, who has lost his shirt, celebrates Washington s NLCS win with Howie Kendrick and Aníbal Sánchez.Washington Post photo by Toni L. Sandys
Brian Dozier had 4,900 major league plate appearances, and only 482 of them came with the Washington Nationals. When he retired from baseball last month, he did so as a Minnesota Twin, the team that drafted him, developed him, brought him to the big leagues and made him an all-star.
And yet in Washington, where no fan has witnessed an in-person major league game since - why, since the 2019 World Series - Dozier is best remembered as the shirtless dude from Mississippi, holding some sort of Anheuser-Busch product that wasn t long for this world, crooning reggaeton lyrics in . . . Spanish? Which brought no small measure of delight to his Spanish-speaking teammates.
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