Third in a four-part series
There are many reasons why Bobby Valentine lost favor with the Chiba Lotte Marines organization.
It wasn't just his prohibitive salary ($5 million per year). In contrast to the foreign media covering Valentine in Japan, who liked to portray Valentine as a victim of heartless corporate executives, Japanese reporters were becoming increasingly unsympathetic as they learned more of what had gone on behind the scenes.
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