Mac Wainwright, the Cincinnati Reds' fourth-round draft pick, said he wants to be a role model for young Black baseball players. Cincinnati Enquirer
After attending a protest against racial injustice in Chicago earlier this month, Cubs president Theo Epstein initiated a plan for Major League Baseball’s executives to make a statement.
In about two days, Epstein and fellow heads of baseball departments decided to use the MLB Draft, which was televised on ESPN and MLB Network, as their platform. Executives from all 30 teams, including Cincinnati Reds president of baseball operations Dick Williams, held up placards from their remote draft sites that read: “Black Lives Matter.