Bobby Valentine, who has returned to Japan to manage Chiba the Lotte Marines, said Monday he will urge his players to become less of a samurai and more of a performer while the game is in play.
Bobby Valentine addresses a press luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.Valentine, who guided the Marines to a second-place finish in 1995 -- the team's best finish in the last 19 years -- before being fired at the end of the season for what he called "philosophical reasons," said he will start a revolution and begin by injecting some spirit into the lifeless Marines.