Dusty Baker, one of two Black MLB managers, says he is deeply disturbed that no U.S.-born Black players are projected to play in this year's World Series.
. “It looks bad. It lets people know that it didn’t take a year or even a decade to get to this point.”
The Phillies had no Black players on their opening roster this year for the first time since 1959. Roman Quinn, a Black backup outfielder, played 23 games before being released. Last summer, for the first time in MLB draft history, four of the first five players selected were Black.All four, along with more than 300 big leaguers including Atlanta’s Michael Harris II, Cincinnati’s Hunter Greene, Pittsburgh’s Ke’Bryan Hayes and Milwaukee’s Devin Williams, took part in MLB diversity-based initiatives such as the MLB Youth Academy, DREAM Series and the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.
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