Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger Wily Mo Pena has taken exception to comments his manager, Hiromoto "Dave" Okubo, made to the media recently.

The last-place Eagles have scored the fewest runs (440) in Japan and began Wednesday with the worst team batting average in the Pacific League at .243.

On Sept. 27, Okubo was quoted in a Daily Sports article as saying, “the foreign players are driving in too few runs.”