Chinese Baseball Team Coached by Americans in WBC

I just surfed over and saw the World Baseball Classic and the Korean team is pounding the Chinese team 7-0 in the sixth. The strange thing is that the Chinese are being coached by Americans. Per Ashahi:

The only guys connected to this team with any kind of major-league pedigree are American manager Jimmy Lefebvre and pitching coach Bruce Hurst. Needless to say, China is a definite long shot to advance beyond the Pool A games in Tokyo......................

The team has been culled from the best players in the six-team China Baseball League that plays 30 regular-season games on weekends only, a far cry from the 162-game MLB season.............................

Lefebvre coached in Japan which is where the WBC is being played tonight:

Lefebvre, a former National League Rookie of the Year who played four seasons in Japan with the Lotte Orions in the 1970s before going on to manage the Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers, has been in China with Hurst for the past three years to prepare the Chinese team for the 2008 Olympic Games, which they will host....................

Does anyone else find it a bit strange that China has mercenary American coach?