A-rod says baseball needs more African Americans
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That’s not a minor league development system
Baseball players play in NCAA too
NBA has the G-League but that’s for fringe guys. In baseball even the elite guys be in the minor leagues for years. Elite basketball guys don’t even need the NCAA really.
HES SAYING THE LEAGUE
WAS FULL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
SUPERSTARS WHEN THEY ENTERED.
WAS FULL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
SUPERSTARS WHEN THEY ENTERED.
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Pass me the rock nikka
My bad I read NBA.It is well known that college football serves as a free minor league development system for the NFL.
This isn't the NBA, Tennis, Track, or Swimming where an 17 or 18 year old is already physically developed to play professionally.
For the NFL you can say it is I guess but domestic MLB players do college if they aren’t get enough to get signed out HS plus minor leagues
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MLB's lack of innovation is the reason.
If they allowed the same type of creativity the Negro Leagues allowed they would be in a better place.
That 19th century cac "by the rules" bullshyt don't work anymore.
If they allowed the same type of creativity the Negro Leagues allowed they would be in a better place.
That 19th century cac "by the rules" bullshyt don't work anymore.
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What can the MLB do now to salvage. Who should they let run the game?
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I remember this thread.
Dude was making up shyt, then ducked when I showed him the proof.
Dude was making up shyt, then ducked when I showed him the proof.
Yup, and that's exactly how i modeled my behaviors/looks since a youf. Because i wanted to be like my favorite ostentatious and rambunctiously rebellious atheletes growing up.
Shiit is still a part of me to this day and because baseball is already a boring spectacle in itself... you take out the exciting off-game personalities of the players... you give me nothing to follow.
The larger than life personalities were the biggest draw in baseball in the late 80's/90's (bo, deion, big hurt, the kid, David no Justice, etc.).
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Need? Why? For stats or for swagger…that translates into marketing income?
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I went to the Yankees stadium twice it was a bore fest and someone next to me told me the blue jays and yankee game I went to was actually a great game
Baseball was my first love, Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden had every black kid wanting to play baseball in NY. Honestly once I started getting older and better and sad to say it around more cacs I didn't love it as much. The whole vibe felt different, plus having to endure little bits of racism turned me off. After getting shytted on by my coach for going to summer basketball camp going into high school I never played again and just focused on basketball and never regretted it.
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'Hell yeah' Dusty Baker is bothered by MLB's lack of Black players — and how he's helping HBCUs
Dusty Baker's historic World Series win with Houston Astros showed him a stark reality, one he hopes events like HBCU Classic will one day solve.
* article excerpt 02/17/23
How HBCU Classic was formed
The HBCU Classic began with Baker's blessing during spring training in 2022, according to MLB.com, and Astros owner Jim Crane, a progressive in diversity, also jumped aboard.
The showcase is important for baseball but especially minorities at HBCUs. Only two players from the Southwestern Athletic Conference were selected in the 2022 MLB Draft, both on the final day, a number that pales compared to bigger Power Five leagues. The SEC, for instance, had 86 players taken in the same draft, and Jackson State hasn't had a player selected since outfielder Bryce Brown in the 15th round of the 2017 draft.
It all makes for a unique opportunity in Houston, with scouts expected to be in attendance.
It is an honor for the kids to have an opportunity to do that play," said JSU coach Omar Johnson, entering his 17th season. "We are excited about it."
Opportunity is the start. Baker shudders at the dwindling numbers of Black players at all levels of baseball, but especially in the majors. While 38% of MLB players were of color on Opening Day rosters last season, only 7.2% of the players were Black, according to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
At the grassroots level, the biggest disparity Baker sees is kids learning and receiving better instructions at a younger age. But he also cites a lack of affordability for parents who can't get off work to meet the demands of rigorous travel-ball schedules. Estimates vary, but the cost to compete in travel leagues can run from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand — or more — depending on the league or showcase circuit.
“We have to make it affordable for young kids to learn the game and travel,” Baker said. “And give them the same opportunities to learn at the same age. The difference is in economics, (so) make it affordable for young people to go to showcases.”
For Baker, the advice he'd give to young Black players today is the same he would give to his son, 24-year-old Darren, a second baseman in the Washington Nationals organization: Be prepared, be on time, be twice as good as anyone else, and persevere.
“You have to have someone in authority that believes in you,” Baker said.