Oakland Athletics: Comparing Yoenis Cespedes’ Rookie Season to Ichiro Suzuki’s

Coming to a foreign country as your new place of employment can often be a difficult transition for anybody. There’s the obvious potential language barrier. There’s the scrutiny of your new peers and high expectations from your superiors for importing you into their business. And the obvious adaptation to the new surroundings is daunting enough as it is.

For the average expatriate, these issues themselves can be difficult to overcome. Now imagine doing your new job, in a foreign land, while being followed by hordes of media, with the extreme demands of both representing your native country and performing at a high level.

That’s what it has to have been like for Bleacher Report - Oakland Athletics
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