Beat UM and UF wrote:

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chav, I'm not quite sure I see what you're driving at. In your most recent post you stated that you were not calling the Sox "racist," just that they valued college players more than HS players, drafted more college players, and as a result ended up with more whites and fewer blacks. But yet just before you said:

I think reviewing the scouting in inner cities is worth looking into.

To me that implies that you believe they are not giving the inner cities enough of a look, or to restate in possibly incorrect terms, blacks are not getting their fair shake with the Sox because the Sox are not valuing them as highly as they should.

I don't know, it just seemed like your first post screamed that the Sox need to "review" scouting the inner cities, but you then sort of abandoned ship on that idea and said that it doesn't really matter. Which begs the question as to why you said they should "review" their scouting of inner cities in the first place.

I'm sorry to keep this going, but I hate being misquoted. My point was simply that the difference between the number of blacks in the Sox minor league system is likely to not be chance error. Again, we could do a social survey and determine this for sure, but I think by looking at the numbers at a glance that this is the case. I AM NOT SAYING THE RED SOX HAVE EVEN ONE DROP OF RACISM IN THEIR SYSTEM. My point is that some of their drafting strategies and philosophies as well as where they focus their scouting COULD POTENTIAL result in this statistical anomoly. Again, I have no idea for sure what is causing it. I did not say that they had to increase scouting in inner cities. I said perhaps they should review it, because a lack of inner city scouting is one thing that could result in this outcome. It very well could be that their inner city scouting is great and has nothing to do with this.

chav, I'm not quite sure I see what you're driving at. In your most recent post you stated that you were not calling the Sox "racist," just that they valued college players more than HS players, drafted more college players, and as a result ended up with more whites and fewer blacks

I did not say that. I said: "For instance, If a team drafts mostly college players then statistically they are likely to have a lower % of blacks." This was simply a point to show that larger organizational philosophies could lead to a discrepency in the number of blacks in the organization. I have no idea what is causing this for the Red Sox. I am simply stating that it is not a statistical anomoly and perhaps could be looked at to see if our scouting is sufficiently covering certain areas or if it is in fact just a tendency to draft college players.

EDIT: I also want to emphasize that this is an issue that has very little to do with race. I would expect that if any group, whether it be Dominicans, Floridians, blacks, High Schoolers or some other group, were statistically under represented in the system, and it was not a result of an organization philosophy (drafting college players) then there would be a review to see why this is and whether improvements could be made.