Cornell researchers analyzed diversity metrics in Major League Baseball (MLB), revealing significant disparities for Latin American players and coaches. Despite MLB's diversity initiatives yielding positive assessments, findings showed that these players typically experience shorter careers and face language and cultural barriers that influence their inclusion. Interviews with Minor League players and coaches highlighted ongoing challenges like English-speaking dominance and locker room cliques. These issues, compounded by low pay and extensive travel, reveal that conventional diversity measures do not adequately capture the complexities of inclusion within baseball.
International Latino players face language and cultural barriers that aren't captured in the most commonly used measures of diversity. Our studies provide some evidence that despite high player and coach diversity grades in the majors, there is still work to be done.
While MLB has made strides in interculturalism, obstacles like language barriers and cliques persist, highlighting that high diversity metrics may mask underlying inequities faced by minority players.
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