While no American-born Black players participated in this year’s World Series for the first time in 72 years, an effort has been in place for years to reverse declines in participation.
High school baseball players train at the MLB Dream Series weekend camp in Tempe, Ariz., Jan. 14, 2023.
Only three months have passed since the conclusion of a World Series that embarrassed and humbled MLB. For the first time in 72 years, it was played without a single American-born Black player. That work is his passion. Reagins, who was general manager of the Los Angeles Angels from 2007-11, joined MLB with a mandate to diversify the game from the ground up. He helped initiate and revitalize several development programs, including the Dream Series, which is held each year during MLK Day weekend; the Breakthrough Series; and the Hank Aaron Invitational, which culminates in a showcase event at Truist Park, in suburban Atlanta.
Last weekend, former players and managers, including Manuel, LaTroy Hawkins, Marvin Freeman and Mike Scioscia, were scattered around the Angels’ training facility, working closely with many of the best young Black players in the country. MLB says about 600 alumni of the series have gone on to play in college, an achievement Reagins hails as equally important to the core mission.
But as the number of Black players in MLB continues to decline, the number of draft picks has increased drastically in recent years, in part because of the league’s programs. According to the same study, in the first rounds of the last 10 drafts, 65 American-born Black players were drafted out of 349 picks . A large percentage of those players were alumni from MLB-led development programming.
One day soon, young children may be watching players such as Zion Rose and Sir Jamison Jones, two of several catchers working last weekend with Scioscia, the former Dodgers All-Star catcher and longtime manager of the Angels. But nothing has yet dissuaded Cam Johnson, a top left-handed pitcher from Maryland, from pursuing a career in baseball.
Speaking by telephone from the ship, McDaniel described how Manuel first discovered him and others on the Little League fields of Sacramento, California.
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