Manfred says MLB must improve minority hiring

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Minority managers have all but disappeared from Major League Baseball's dugouts, which next year could have no black skippers for the first time in nearly three decades.

"We have had a year where our numbers are down in terms of the diversity that we have in some of our key positions," Rob Manfred said Monday, a day ahead of the start of the first World Series since he became baseball commissioner. "I think it's incumbent upon us to come up with additional programs and ways to make sure that our numbers look better over the long haul."

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