<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Astros&src=hash">#Astros</a> officially announce the signing of LHP Tony Sipp to a one-year contract. Jesse Crain to 60-day DL to create 40-man roster space.</p>— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a href="https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/statuses/462292473600307201">May 2, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Paul Clemens also optioned to OKC
Personally, I would prefer players who played baseball really well, as opposed to just getting guys of a particular skin tone. But, to each their own
It's not an either/or situation. See bobrek's post on page 1 as why having more black players is a good thing for the game in general. Or a thread from a while back where a poster was psyched to find out Fowler was black. No need to be so sensitive just because race gets brought up.
blacks are around 13% of the US population from the pool of countries that provide MLB players, they're less (depending on how you count latino blacks). Asian countries, Mexico have none. so they're represented about even with their portion of population. maybe a smidge low but not much at all
I'm really not sensitive about it at all, I just would rather we have a great team. If we win the World Series I wouldn't care finite was 25 black guys, no black guys, whatever race is cool with me. As long as we have good players who aren't bad people in general, that's what matters to me Right now our problem is that our black players suck, our white players suck and our Hispanic players suck
I totally agree with all of this. Priority number one for everyone (myself included) is having a winning team. I just think it's neat that the Astros have a bunch of players from an under-represented minority on the team (though bigtexxx disagrees on the 'under-represented' point).
The representation in all of MLB is less than 8%. Also, going by the logic of "as a portion of the population" shouldn't the NBA be around 13% black?
you were the one that introduced "a large segment of the population" into the discussion. my point is that they're about as represented as they are in the overall population NBA is a different discussion that has other variables at play
