Considering there was 567 American born players according to Baseball America not counting people like Burns, Donovan, Peterson(who were raised in the states) that's about 9 percent of American born/raised players being Black.
It depends on how your counting and who you are counting, right? The 567 American-born number is from where? MLB’s recently release stat on foreign born players? My count is only the 26 players on the Opening Day active roster. That doesn’t include players on the 40-man or on the injured list. So, Hunter Greene who is an American-born Major Leaguer is not counted right now due to injury (nor is JP Crawford). By my count, I’m at 54 of 780 eligible players, but the numbers changes every day. Burns is really tricky, right? Born on a military base in Italy, raised in the states, and not a lot of information on ethnicity of his mother Trenita Burns. He is counted in my 54, but George Springer is not. The count gets subjective in that way.
Yeah I just bring it up because of how I feel like we often donʻt see it specific to American demographic and why American-born players demos seemed skewed from the actual populace in the States(I think this would also extend towards Asian-Americans). It seems the Baseball America number was active roster on opening day. Thanks for doing all this work been really enjoying reading everything
Considering there was 567 American born players according to Baseball America not counting people like Burns, Donovan, Peterson(who were raised in the states) that's about 9 percent of American born/raised players being Black.
It depends on how your counting and who you are counting, right? The 567 American-born number is from where? MLB’s recently release stat on foreign born players? My count is only the 26 players on the Opening Day active roster. That doesn’t include players on the 40-man or on the injured list. So, Hunter Greene who is an American-born Major Leaguer is not counted right now due to injury (nor is JP Crawford). By my count, I’m at 54 of 780 eligible players, but the numbers changes every day. Burns is really tricky, right? Born on a military base in Italy, raised in the states, and not a lot of information on ethnicity of his mother Trenita Burns. He is counted in my 54, but George Springer is not. The count gets subjective in that way.
Yeah I just bring it up because of how I feel like we often donʻt see it specific to American demographic and why American-born players demos seemed skewed from the actual populace in the States(I think this would also extend towards Asian-Americans). It seems the Baseball America number was active roster on opening day. Thanks for doing all this work been really enjoying reading everything
I will say I feel like the WBC might be a shifting point in discourse but who knows.