Why is the MLB so white?
Demographics in the MLB are… interesting. The NFL and NBA are majority-Black. MLS is one of the most geographically diverse leagues in the world.
Compare those leagues to the American baseball and a really interesting question emerges: Why are there so many white people in the MLB? Well, I think I found the answer.
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Read more about the MLB’s diversity stats on the MLB Website: https://www.mlb.com/news/diversity-in-mlb-expanding-in-2023
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@GarrisonHayes
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Let me get ahead of this… use this as your Braves slander button 🤦🏾♂️🥶
@LeafDew
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Don't think this video goes deep enough. Personally, I would look into the changes to player scouting and development from 1990s to now. I'd also look more deeply into something you mentioned in this video: the domestic baseball programs within the education system, specifically the programs that feed into the MLB.
@jumpman23824
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
White folks don't want black kids playing little league
@TheTruthIsNoOpinion
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Make Basketball & American Football a white sport again lol. All American sports is invented vy white people.
@rentslave
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Baseball isn't just running and jumping.
Michael Jordan was a lousy baseball player.
John Kruk was an excellent player.
@rentslave
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
There are a lot of Black players in MLB but most of them speak Spanish.
@Muskogee
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Kids are mistreated in little league, high school. Kids lose interest because the well of white kids parents donate money and put them in front of good baseball players. Kids would rather play football and basketball because they feel like they get a better chance. My son threw a fast ball in the 90s. The pitcher in front of him familhad money. His grandfather was a coach at a know D1 school. He sat behind him. Only pitched 1 inning a game. In little league he was the only black player on the team. They put him in right field.
@jennessacard4796
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Baseball is America’s hockey. I got it
@saintoflastresorts2272
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
1. Why did you compare baseball to basketball instead of football.? Which has more equipment than baseball and comparative cost. Also basketball has AAU teams which is the equivalent of a baseball travel team.
2. Since baseball is mostly latino there a lot of kids in Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and DR that play the game. Lastly, if you love to play a game no one is going to stop you. You have people from all over the world playing baseball.
Also yes you, me and Ty Cobb agree the Bambino was the first brother in mlb.
One can argue with its asian, latin america, and caribbean prescence Baseball is the most inclusive game out of the big 3. Oddly enough football is the least.
@crewlj
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
That was garbage. Nothing but racial azzdouchery.
@Ewe-pt1jw
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Ask Perfect Game
@senddeee1451
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Black people consume the most luxury goods in this country but cannot afford giving their kids used gloves and cleats off of eBay like my parents did. I think the problem relies in the priorities, not necessarily a systemic racism issue.
@lawrencearmstrong8957
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Your video it's got some very skewed statistics! If I have a job that pays me $20 an hour and a black man has a job that pays him $20 an hour and our kids want to play baseball then that decision is within the family. That's nothing to do with access! Sounds like you're kind of race hustling a little bit!
@user-ce5ch5bi7m
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
You did not really provide any answers. What is the way forward? How should the MLB continue and what is the path forward!
@th0tsnprayers0
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Lol the sheer amount of "what-about" comments that were so obviously written before even finishing the video is hilarious and actively proves Garrison's point that white America will do whatever it can to explicitly and implicitly protect what they deem to be theirs then and now and forever
@ER-df8vx
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
If blacks get high numbers in baseball it would destroy it like everything else they ruin
@paulwood356
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Lol baseball isn't expensive. Kids in Latin countries play on dirt patches with a stick and make it to the mlb. Blacks got an excuse for literally everything
@ThurstonStevenson
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Thanks for making these videos! I was just telling my wife I’d love to put our boys in baseball someday
@gwilliams7886
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
If there is a black kid that can't afford to play baseball in some mostly white district I guarantee you there is someone there that will help that kid. Not only that there is goodwill, there is yard sales, and all kinds of other ways to get gear. Sorry, but I just can't fathom any kid not being able to afford gear and that is why the kid doesn't play. Perhaps if you went out into the field and did some actual reporting it may be more convicting. Go talk to families that cannot afford to buy their kid gear.
@IdkYouchooseig
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
The Phillies specifically are like this, moreso the batting lineup side.
@prlopez6134
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
For the same reason NBA and NFL are BLACK
@jimerso6004
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 pm
This video does a good job of illustrating the barriers, both historic and economic, facing potential black players but doesn't even attempt to explain why the number of black players has fallen so dramatically since the 1980s and 1990s.
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