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Yankees Mag: Life Sciences
《洋基杂志：人生教育》
At the Yankees’ Latin Béisbol Academy in the Dominican Republic, the On-Field
Work is Just Part of the Education
在多明尼加的洋基拉丁棒球学院，球场上的训练只是教育的一部分
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Melissa Hernandez seems to be fighting back tears as she tells the story, attemp
ting to explain some of the unexpected emotional heft that comes with her job as
the lead teacher/player development assistant at the Latin Béisbol Academy.
当拉丁棒球学院首席教师兼球员发展助理Melissa Hernandez讲述这段故事时，眼眶似乎泛
著泪光，她试图说明这份工作除了棒球之外，还承载着许多人意想不到的情感重量
Hernandez has been working for the Yankees since 2016, teaching in the Dominican
Republic for several years before spending time running the education side of t
he player development complex in Tampa, Fla. She’s back in the Dominican now, w
here her office in the Boca Chica complex is plastered with photos of smiling yo
ung ballplayers.
Hernandez自2016年起便在洋基队工作，她曾在多明尼加担任教师数年，之后负责佛罗里达
州坦帕球员发展基地的教育业务，如今她又回到多明尼加，在Boca Chica训练基地的办公室
里，墙上贴满了一张张年轻球员灿烂微笑的照片
The vast majority of them are all but anonymous; few would be recognizable to ev
en the most prospect-savvy Yankees fan. But the photos radiate warmth and joy an
d achievement. It’s the type of brag wall that only a teacher could truly appre
ciate.
其中绝大多数球员几乎默默无闻，即便是最熟悉洋基农场体系的球迷，也很难认出他们，然
而这些照片散发著温暖、喜悦与成就感，那是一面只有教师才能真正珍惜与骄傲的荣誉墙
The Latin Béisbol Academy is where some of the youngest members of the Yankees
organization get their start.
拉丁棒球学院是洋基体系中最年轻球员展开职业生涯的起点
While players from the United States and Puerto Rico are subject to the MLB Draf
t, which they can take part in either immediately following high school or after
one year of junior college or three years at a four-year college, international
players can sign contracts when they’re as young as 16 years old.
美国与波多黎各球员必须透过大联盟选秀进入职棒，可以在高中毕业后、社区大学一年后，
或四年制大学三年后参加选秀；然而国际球员最早只要16岁就能签下职业合约
It’s essentially a free-for-all, with scouts scouring the globe and locking up
players as early as possible.
这几乎是一场全球性的抢人大战，各队球探在世界各地寻找人才，并尽可能提早将他们网罗
And while amateur baseball in the U.S. is becoming an ever-more-expensive and sp
ecialized sport, many of the teenage prospects signed from far-flung corners of
the world show up with well-trained skills, loads of potential … and little els
e.
而在美国，业余棒球正逐渐成为一项昂贵且高度专业化的运动；相比之下，许多来自世界各
地的青少年国际新秀虽然拥有扎实的技术与惊人的潜力，却往往除此之外一无所有
Hernandez recalls a young, thin pitcher that was signed and brought over to the
Academy.
Hernandez回忆起一名刚被签下、带到学院的瘦弱年轻投手
“He was so skinny that I was worried when I saw him,” she says. “Like, How is
he going to make it? He had these sandal shoes on all the time."
“他瘦到让我一看到就担心，我心想：‘他真的能撑过来吗？’他总是穿着一双凉鞋”
“And when they took him down to get his feet sized for baseball shoes, he start
ed crying. And the guy down there called me, ‘Melissa, will you please come dow
n here, because this kid is crying and I don’t know what’s going on.’”
“当工作人员带他去量脚、准备发棒球鞋时，他突然哭了起来，下面的人打电话给我说：‘
Melissa，妳能下来一下吗？这孩子一直哭，我不知道发生了什么事’”
“So, I went down there and I asked him, and he told me that was the first time
that he had worn shoes.”
“于是我过去问他，结果他告诉我，那是他人生第一次穿鞋子”
“Those are the kinds of things you hear.”
“这就是我们经常会听到的故事”
Hernandez and everyone else involved with the Latin Béisbol Academy have plenty
of stories like that.
Hernandez与拉丁棒球学院的工作人员都听过无数类似的故事
To be sure, if you asked administrators from any of the other 29 teams’ academi
es that dot the Dominican landscape, they certainly do, as well.
事实上如果去询问其他29支大联盟球队设在多明尼加的训练学院主管，他们也一定都有类似
的经历
The system that feeds players to many of these academies, particularly from thir
d-world countries, is different in every way from what American amateurs experie
nce.
尤其对于来自第三世界国家的球员而言，通往这些学院的培养体系，与美国业余球员的成长
环境可说是天差地远
Oswaldo Cabrera was 16 years old when he signed with the Yankees out of Venezuel
a on July 2, 2015.
Oswaldo Cabrera于2015年7月2日以16岁之龄从委内瑞拉加盟洋基
By the end of 2016, he had split time in three different leagues, starting in th
e Dominican Summer League, then spending time in Florida’s Gulf Coast League an
d with the team’s then-Carolina League affiliate in Pulaski, Virginia.
到了2016年底，他已经在三个不同联盟出赛，包括多明尼加夏季联盟、佛罗里达湾岸联盟，
以及当时位于维吉尼亚州普拉斯基的洋基卡罗莱纳联盟附属球队
But, he says, “I left home at 13 or 14 years old.”
但他表示：
“我13、14岁时就离开家了”
Like so many other young strivers, Cabrera had turned his life over to baseball
at a time when young American boys and girls are managing the awkward effects of
puberty.
与许多怀抱梦想的年轻球员一样，在美国同龄孩子还在适应青春期变化的年纪时，Cabrera
已经把人生完全投入棒球
“You’re still a kid; that’s not a secret,” he says of showing up at the Acad
emy as a 16-year-old. “You have to get your mind in the right way to not think
that you’re a kid. You’re a man now.”
谈到16岁来到学院时他说：
“你仍然只是个孩子，这不是秘密，但你必须调整心态，不能再把自己当成小孩，你现在是
一个男人了”
Kids need love, they need support, and they need schooling. And at the Yankees’
Latin Béisbol Academy, Hernandez and her staff are working to make sure that t
he players in their charge get all three.
孩子需要关爱、需要支持，也需要教育，而在洋基拉丁棒球学院，Hernandez与她的团队正
努力确保这些年轻球员能同时获得这三样东西
Brian Cashman gets it. The big leagues’ longest-tenured general manager knows t
hat he and his staff are judged by results more than processes. All the goodwill
that he has accumulated could be wiped away by a few dark Octobers at Yankee St
adium.
洋基总经理Brian Cashman非常明白这一点，身为大联盟任期最长的总管，他知道外界评价
他和团队时，看重的是结果而非过程，即便多年来累积了无数声望，只要在洋基球场经历几
个失败的十月，这些好评都可能瞬间化为乌有
It’s a ruthless game, for executives, for coaches and certainly for players. Su
cceed, and you’ll be treated like a hero. Fail, and you’ll be cast aside. It’
s always brutal when a player fails to meet expectations and the harsh realities
of business take over, but it’s also the nature of the beast.
这是一个残酷的产业，无论是管理阶层、教练还是球员皆然，成功时你会被当成英雄；失败
时，你就可能被抛弃，当球员未能达到期待而必须面对职业运动的现实时，总是令人感到残
酷，但这也是这项产业的本质
When it comes to teenagers at the Latin Béisbol Academy, it’s not so simple. I
f they don’t make it