‘Impacting a generation’: DREAM Series creates opportunities for Black youth

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“If the players that are here can get that opportunity and that exposure, it’s definitely going to change their lives.”

~ Hunter Greene
MLB Dream Series Alum ‘17

The DREAM Series is 4 days away????‼️ pic.twitter.com/CGq9cTEssA

— MLBDevelops (@MLBDevelops) January 9, 2023

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Six years after participating himself, @HunterGreene17 is headed back to the DREAM Series to work with the next generation of stars.

https://t.co/ew6pGpeRqh pic.twitter.com/MKcUawfRlq

— MLB (@MLB) January 9, 2023

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The experience gave Mahomes, who is part of the Royals’ ownership group and played college baseball briefly at Texas Tech University, a nuanced perspective: he knows something about choosing football over baseball, but also about the strides MLB is making to encourage more youth participation in Black communities.nn“They are doing their best to get more American-born Black kids to grow up throughout baseball,” Mahomes Jr. told reporters in November. “I think as we continue to show [the game] in our neighborhoods, and it’s not about just basketball and football, and you see these great talents coming up, we’ll make that statement that we’ve made in the past.”nnJones, the D-backs’ No. 2 prospect per MLB Pipeline, skipped basketball video games to attend the 2020 DREAM Series and “learned a lot of different things you don’t think about when you’re young.” He gave up basketball for good shortly after, and now credit the camp with “really changing my mind about Black people in baseball.”nn“I see our game flourishing now,” Jones mentioned. “I feel like guys like me, Termarr and Elijah are making it so younger kids want to start playing baseball more often. 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So hopefully in the near future we won’t have to talk about this anymore or even be in this situation.”nnWhen MLB employed Reagins to spearhead its range efforts in 2015, he knew its points couldn’t be resolved in a single day. Today, the league’s dedication takes many varieties, from marquee occasions just like the DREAM Series to MLB’s current partnership with Black church buildings, with the newest being in Sacramento, on the grassroots degree.nn“Baseball cares,” Reagins mentioned. “Baseball is not just going to come into your community and leave. We’re going to leave a footprint that’s going to be lasting.”nnSo too, would be the results on the game itself — that continues to be the purpose. According to these on the frontlines of those efforts, the outcomes they’re seeing now are solely the start.nn“We’re at the tip of the iceberg,” Manuel mentioned. “Black kids are playing baseball. I didn’t think they were until I began to get involved with this. 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This Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, 80 of the nation’s high various, predominantly African American beginner baseball gamers descended upon Tempe Diablo Stadium, the Spring Training dwelling of the Los Angeles Angels, and underneath the nice Arizona winter solar to embark on a protracted weekend in contrast to any they’ve skilled earlier than.

They took batting follow to the sound of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech pumping by way of the ballpark sound system. They laced up in pro-style clubhouses, obtain elite-level instruction from a fleet of former MLB gamers and coaches. By night time, they attended seminars on King, Jackie Robinson and different titanic trailblazers to deepen their understanding of how these legacies transcend baseball, and the way they are often continued each on and off the sector.

“We really try to tie Dr. King’s dream to baseball,” mentioned MLB chief baseball growth officer Tony Reagins, who served because the Angels’ GM from 2007-11. “There is at all times this unfavourable stigma round African Americans in baseball. It’s so essential that we promote the truth that these gamers are on the market, very proficient gamers, and so they love the sport of baseball and so they play. I feel it’s the best-kept secret.”

Such is the scene awaiting the sport’s subsequent era of stars on the MLB DREAM Series, the four-day, invite-only annual showcase that’s develop into a flagship of MLB’s rising slate of range packages geared toward growing Black participation within the sport. Run since its inception in 2017 by former American League Manager of the Year Jerry Manuel (White Sox, ’00), the DREAM Series offers elite Black prepsters with a platform to showcase their abilities in entrance of faculty and professional evaluators. It additionally provides them a style of the large league expertise. The occasion is designed to additional develop the expertise pool of various pitchers and catchers — although, as a result of athletes play a number of positions, instruction additionally contains different areas of the sport.

“It was like going to your favorite class in school, the class you pay attention in more than the other classes,” mentioned D-backs prospect Druw Jones, who participated within the 2020 DREAM Series. “Growing up, all my Black mates performed basketball and soccer, and I by no means actually acquired to see them. …

“I don’t think it’s a race thing, that Black people don’t want to play baseball. It’s hard. It’s a very expensive sport to play,”

Said Marquis Grissom, a former All-Star middle fielder and a daily DREAM Series teacher: “There ain’t nothing like it. There ain’t nothing like it in the whole wide world for Black kids and for Latino kids. They do an outstanding job of getting the best guys from around the country and bringing them into that great environment and get them some of the best culture. It’s so, so rewarding.”

Along with associated occasions just like the Breakthrough Series, Hank Aaron Invitational and the Elite Development Invitational, MLB’s range initiatives are free and designed to introduce the game to underserved youngsters, with a watch towards creating elite expertise. The long-term purpose is to assist bridge the socioeconomic gaps that led to steep declines in Black participation in baseball over the previous few a long time.

“To me, success is impacting a generation,” Reagins mentioned. “Giving these kids the tools to not only be good baseball people, but good individuals, good men and good men of character.”

Said Manuel: “When you don’t have that culture involved, you’re missing a major piece in the game. You’re going to see the game begin to look like the country, look like the world. That’s the idea.”

“Those guys were seedlings at one point, and now they have blossomed — they’ve gone from the seed to the flower to the fruit, and now we get orchids of people coming to play,” Manuel mentioned. “We’re beginning to see youngsters migrate again towards baseball. The athlete that went on to play basketball, the athlete that might’ve been an awesome working again — now enjoying baseball.

“We’re seeing guys that remind you of Dave Parker, Dave Winfield. We are starting to get back the athlete that we had missed, I thought, for a period of time. It seems like it’s becoming cool for the young guys now to play baseball. That’s the transformation that I have seen.”

Additionally, MLB’s Breakthrough Series has produced 285 Draft picks since 2009, whereas 49 picks since 17 had beforehand performed within the Hank Aaron Invitational. All instructed, 23 at the moment energetic large leaguers who’ve made their Major League debuts and are on the minimal actively pursuing roster spots are merchandise of MLB’s growth packages –including All-Star reliever Devin Williams and Nationals first baseman Dominic Smith.

“Being around those types of players, it elevates your game,” mentioned Johnson, the Pirates’ 2022 high decide. “Meeting guys like me who look like me and play the game like me, it gave me a lot of motivation to keep going in the game.”

Baseball wasn’t at all times Johnson’s sole focus. He grew up enjoying a number of sports activities within the Atlanta space — and idolizing basketball legend Kobe Bryant. His introduction to MLB’s outreach packages got here through Grissom, who runs his personal expansive Georgia-based growth program and was teaching Johnson’s older brother on the time. Grissom inspired Johnson to take part within the Breakthrough Series; he determined to concentrate on baseball from then on.

“He played with our 16- and 18-year-old teams at 12 years old … that was pretty impressive,” Grissom mentioned. “Guys like that have great talent. They just need a little guidance, a little push or a little information and an opportunity.”

By the time Johnson performed within the 2020 DREAM Series, he was probably the greatest prospects within the nation. Suddenly, he was receiving instruction from Ron Washington, Lou Collier and different revered professionals — one large league mentor had morphed into extra. That’s one of many many distinctive components of the DREAM Series that leaves an influence on its contributors.

“That was the first taste of seeing guys who were like me, who were just as good as me, and it gave me a sense of clarity on how much more is in this game,” Johnson mentioned. “It prepared me for learning how to be a pro. It helped me with a lot and I’m so thankful for it.”

Said Collier: “I wish I could have had a little bit of that when I was coming up.”

“If the players that are here can get that opportunity and that exposure, it’s definitely going to change their lives.”

~ Hunter Greene
MLB Dream Series Alum ‘17

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Collier could have missed out, however he made certain his son didn’t. Cam Collier, the Reds’ first-round decide (18th general) within the 2022 Draft, spent a lot of his youth concerned with MLB programming: three Elite Development Invitationals, two Hank Aaron Invitationals, a DREAM Series and a Breakthrough Series. He additionally performed within the ’21 High School All-American Game.

Greene, the Reds’ fireballer, additionally credited the standard of the teaching for the influence this system had on him. The work is a calling for Manuel, Grissom and Collier, all of whom run their very own growth packages at dwelling all year long. Their ardour and the character of the work helps recruit an in depth listing of proficient instructors to those occasions, like LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Scioscia, Fred McGriff, Marvin Freeman and Ken Griffey Jr., amongst many others.

The roster for final yr’s Hank Aaron Invitational alone comprised of 27 on-field coaches with a mixed 29 All-Star appearances and 7 World Series titles between them.

“It’s really great being able to get some tutelage and coaching from some of the best players to play, great coaches that are still involved in the sport,” Greene mentioned. “That’s really special. A lot of guys had great careers as players, but now they’re removed a little bit more from the game. So whenever there’s some successful players that come back into the game, and are willing to give, to spread their knowledge and be a wealth of knowledge is really important.”

Said Reagins: “Creating opportunities is what’s really important, and passing the torch.”

Another notable MLB Develops alum: NFL famous person Patrick Mahomes Jr., who was a two-sport prepster when Hawkins (his godfather, since Hawkins and Mahomes’ father, Pat Sr., have been teammates on the Twins within the early ’90s) inspired him to play within the Breakthrough Series. The expertise gave Mahomes, who’s a part of the Royals’ possession group and performed faculty baseball briefly at Texas Tech University, a nuanced perspective: he is aware of one thing about selecting soccer over baseball, but additionally concerning the strides MLB is making to encourage extra youth participation in Black communities.

“They are doing their best to get more American-born Black kids to grow up throughout baseball,” Mahomes Jr. instructed reporters in November. “I think as we continue to show [the game] in our neighborhoods, and it’s not about just basketball and football, and you see these great talents coming up, we’ll make that statement that we’ve made in the past.”

Jones, the D-backs’ No. 2 prospect per MLB Pipeline, skipped basketball video games to attend the 2020 DREAM Series and “learned a lot of different things you don’t think about when you’re young.” He gave up basketball for good shortly after, and now credit the camp with “really changing my mind about Black people in baseball.”

“I see our game flourishing now,” Jones mentioned. “I feel like guys like me, Termarr and Elijah are making it so younger kids want to start playing baseball more often. So that’s good. That’s the only thing that matters right now.”

Jones is the son of five-time All-Star Andruw Jones and attended personal college, so he didn’t expertise the socioeconomic challenges that preserve many different minority youngsters from the diamond. Still, his expertise highlights the influence the DREAM Series can have on gamers from a big selection of backgrounds.

“The other way our program benefits a kid is that he now sees other African American players playing the game, whereas normally you’ll go to a school and you might see one kid of African American descent on the team,” Manuel mentioned. “When they arrive with us, everyone is that, so it is a totally different feeling for them, that frees them to say: ‘Oh, I can be who I am and still play this game.’

“That’s a huge component. Huge, huge. That’s freedom.”

For many underprivileged youngsters, the decrease price of enjoying basketball and soccer on the beginner ranges is a consider gravitating towards these sports activities. They additionally present faster paths to the professionals, the place in baseball even the perfect prospects usually spend a number of years within the Minors.

But there is no such thing as a one trigger for the skewed state of MLB’s present demographics. Only 7 p.c of MLB gamers in 2021 have been Black, down from a excessive of greater than 18 p.c within the mid-80s.The ’22 World Series between the Astros and Phillies was the primary since 1950 to not function any U.S.-born Black gamers.

“I don’t think that’s something that baseball should really be proud of,” Houston skipper Dusty Baker mentioned throughout the Fall Classic. “It lets people know that it didn’t take a year or even a decade to get to this point. But there is help on the way. You can tell by the number of African American No. 1 Draft choices. The academies are producing players. So hopefully in the near future we won’t have to talk about this anymore or even be in this situation.”

When MLB employed Reagins to spearhead its range efforts in 2015, he knew its points couldn’t be resolved in a single day. Today, the league’s dedication takes many varieties, from marquee occasions just like the DREAM Series to MLB’s current partnership with Black church buildings, with the newest being in Sacramento, on the grassroots degree.

“Baseball cares,” Reagins mentioned. “Baseball is not just going to come into your community and leave. We’re going to leave a footprint that’s going to be lasting.”

So too, would be the results on the game itself — that continues to be the purpose. According to these on the frontlines of those efforts, the outcomes they’re seeing now are solely the start.

“We’re at the tip of the iceberg,” Manuel mentioned. “Black kids are playing baseball. I didn’t think they were until I began to get involved with this. This is where I want to stay and I want to see the fruits of the labor. I’m looking to find the next Black managers as well as the Black players that can play our game so our culture can get back involved in it.”