Warren Cromartie says he's always been a team player.
So when his former Yomiuri Giants teammate Tatsunori Hara, currently the club's manager, asked for his help, there was no way the 1989 Central League MVP was going to turn him down.
Cromartie was already in Japan, working some things with MLB Japan in addition to other projects, when Hara reached out recently to ask him to impart some of his wisdom to Giants players as a guest hitting instructor. He's currently on the team's road trip to Nagoya, where he was seen giving All-Star Kazuma Okamoto some hitting advice during batting practice on Tuesday.