Add Major League Baseball to the list of companies that have caved to President Donald Trump.
As the administration wipes every hint of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from the government, MLB is also seemingly falling in line. According to reporter Craig Calcaterra and The Athletic, the MLB Careers home page no longer includes mentions of “diversity.”
Additionally, via The Athletic in its report on Friday:
Details regarding the league’s once-lauded Diversity Pipeline Program, which began as a means to combat the lack of diversity within MLB’s front offices, seem to have been entirely wiped from the site, too.
“As the commissioner stated, our values on diversity remain unchanged. We are in the process of evaluating our programs for any modifications to eligibility criteria that are needed to ensure our programs are compliant with federal law as they continue forward,” an MLB spokesman said in a statement to The Athletic.
The Athletic reported the change on the MLB Careers page took place between Feb. 25 and March 4, about a month after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred maintained to reporters at the owners’ meetings the league’s values on diversity would remain “unchanged,” though they would “always try to comply with what the law is.”
The report also said that the Diversity Pipeline Program has aided 400 hires.
The news around MLB’s removal of DEI references comes amid the Department of Defense’s temporary removal of baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s Army service from its website this week. Press secretary John Ullyot initially said “DEI is dead at the Defense Department,” before releasing another statement that asid it was correct, though, “We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, or sex.”
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