Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts says 'baseball did not do a good job' of responding to George Floyd's killing and the ensuing protests about racial inequality
on the Bill Simmons Podcast that he has talked at length with Betts specifically of late — felt it during his 19-year career.
“With so few Black baseball players, it’s hard to even have a conversation about it,” Sabathia, 39, said on the podcast. “A lot of times, you won’t have the support that you think you will stepping up and speaking on these social issues. I think that’s where a lot of the quietness comes from from a lot of the younger baseball players, until you get to a point where you’re like me and you’ve got kids and you’re a lot older and you say whatever you want.
Betts hopes players such as himself can alter some of the problematic patterns that have developed in the sport and beyond. “I know it’s not all going to be at one time,” Betts said. “But a little change here, a little change there and eventually we’ll get to where we need to be.”will undergo season-ending back surgery Tuesday, Roberts announced. Signed to a one-year contract in January, the 31-year-old right-hander was expected to bolster the bullpen and potentially start games. But after he experienced pain in spring training, Nelson’s condition didn’t improve during the three-month shutdown. . . .
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