In a racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball, umpire Angel Hernandez alleged umpiring executive Randy Marsh made "two disturbing comments" regarding the hiring of minority umpires, according to Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic.
The lawsuit, which was first filed in 2017, noted there is a lower percentage of minority umpires in baseball compared to referees in the NFL and NBA. Marsh said the league has tried to recruit, but that hasn't worked out.
"The problem is, yeah, they want to be in the big leagues tomorrow, and they don't want to go through all of that," Marsh said in a deposition.