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Chinese baseball team takes over Texas minor league club
中国棒球队接管一支在德州小联盟的球队
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — The starting lineups are announced in English
and Spanish at home games for the independent Texas AirHogs.
在德州独立联盟球队AirHogs主场，宣布先发棒次是用英文跟西班牙文。
And then the Chinese national anthem is played.
然后再来是播中国的国歌。
For about 30 members of the Chinese national baseball team, the suburban
ballpark a few miles west of downtown Dallas has become their summer home and
training ground in an unprecedented setup.
对于这约30名中国国家棒球队的球员来说，这在德州达拉斯郊外几哩的棒球场就是他们夏
季的家跟训练场，是史无前例的规格。
They are a revolving part of the roster for a professional team in the United
States, playing more games and against tougher competition while working to
improve for future international events such as the upcoming Asian Games and
2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
他们参与了美国一支职业棒球队的部分轮值，打更多的比赛，面对更强的对手，希望在即
将来临的亚运以及2020东京奥运可以更加改善他们的战力。
"The system that they've created here, where we work out in the morning,
we've got weight training, the pitchers have a system where we throw on, the
coaches have kind of set up a system that's really helped them to be able to
make the adjustment to play more games," Sun Jianzeng, a 26-year-old
right-hander, said through a translator.
“他们建立的系统，像是早上的训练，重训，投手系统，教练系统等，帮助球员调整，得
以应付更多的比赛，”26岁的右投Sun Jianzeng透过翻译说到。
Chinese players who professionally back home would play only 20-30 games a
season make up about two-thirds of the expanded roster for the American
Association team now formally known as the AirHogs powered by Beijing
Shougang Eagles. The players ranging in age from 18 to 29 rotate on and off
the active roster to play 6-7 games per week in one of the low-minor leagues
not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
中国的职业球员在中国一年打大概20-30场比赛，而在北京首钢金鹰接管了AirHogs后，三
分之二的扩大轮值是中国棒球球员。年纪18-29岁，会轮流轮值，平均一礼拜打6-7场比
赛，打低层级非隶属MLB的比赛。
"It makes it workable, because we don't want to wear these guys down," said
AirHogs manager John McLaren, a big league coach for three decades who has
worked with Chinese teams since 2011.
“这模式可行，因为我们不希望操爆他们，”AirHogs教练John McLaren说。McLaren也曾
在MLB执教，而在2011年后就一直与中国球队合作。
Players not on the active roster for games go through early workouts at
AirHogs Stadium, 10 minutes from the home ballpark of the Texas Rangers.
There are conditioning and weight training drills that are new to the Chinese
players.
而没在轮值名单内的球员则是早上就去AirHogs体育馆训练，距离条子主场约10分钟路
程。对于这些中国球员来说，调节演练跟重训演练是全新的概念。
"They're trying to do something they've never done before, which is play this
many games on a daily basis, and you throw into the fact that with the
exception of maybe three or four pitchers, they're physically and
experienced-wise overmatched," said Larry Hardy, a former Rangers pitching
coach filling the same role for the AirHogs. "But they're getting better."
“他们在做他们以前从没做过的事，像是每天打这么多比赛，三到四名投手，他们在体能
上与经验上都比不上对手，”前条子投手教练现在是AirHogs的投手教练Larry Hardy说。
“但是他们在进步中。”
McLaren had a short stint managing Seattle in 2007-08 and was Washington's
interim manager for three games in 2011. He was on the Philadelphia Phillies
staff the past two seasons.
McLaren在2007-2008在西雅图水手短暂执教过，在2011年也曾为华盛顿担任三场临时总教
练。他过去两球季也是费城人教练团成员之一。
He also managed China at the World Baseball Classic in 2013 and 2017. Over
that time, there would be gaps of six or seven months when he wouldn't even
see the team — and players would barely play baseball. China has a 2-10
record in its four WBC appearances, getting outscored 102-18 in those games.
在2013跟2017的WBC他担任中国的总教练，在那段时间，会有6到7个月他会根本看不到他的
球员