Let's cut to the chase and not bury the lede - based on a study of every team's broadcasters, Major League Baseball has a huge problem with diversity in the local broadcast booth. How huge? To be exact - there are 164 announcers for the 30 MLB teams' English-speaking broadcasts. Of those 164, here's the breakdown:
- 148 are white men (90.2%).
- 9 are African-American men (5.5%).
- 5 are Latino men (3.0%).
- 1 is an Asian man (0.6%).
- 1 is a white woman (0.6%).
Yup, over 90% of baseball's broadcasters are white men.