According to Major League Baseball, which has not recruited a single person from a minority group to fill any of the six managerial jobs or at least seven general managers or head of baseball operation vacancies, the league believes it is essentially powerless to stop the trend.
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A provision enacted in 1999 by Commissioner Bud Selig compels teams to meet with at least one minority candidate and give a list of minority candidates they are evaluating. However, the league is unable to compel teams to recruit minorities for the positions that are open on their rosters.
According to the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, the MLB, we have recently, within the past year, revised certain elements of the Selig rule in an effort to make it more effective, and we continue to work diligently with our pipeline programs in order to identify individuals that we can give to the clubs in order to provide them with an option in terms of inclusion.
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In order to guarantee that we have a sufficient number of qualified applicants, we are always developing new programs in this sector.
But in the end, those choices are up to the discretion of the individual clubs. … People are going to make choices that they believe will place them in the very, very best position to compete, and it’s incredibly difficult to second-guess and leverage those choices when you’re sitting in New York City. It’s an undeniable fact.
-->Our only option is to put up as much effort as humanly possible in order to provide the clubs with applications from suitably qualified applicants. However, at the end of the day, they are going to decide what course of action to take.
