PITTSBURGH -- In November, Tyrone Brooks joined an advisory council created to address the issue of diversity in Major League Baseball. That was when he learned the league was looking for someone to run its newly created Front Office & Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program. They were looking for someone with a passion for bringing people into the game and for connecting those already within the industry.
In other words, they were looking for Tyrone Brooks.
Brooks began work Monday as the senior director of the Pipeline Program. As part of his new role, he will identify, recruit, mentor and develop minorities and women for coaching and baseball operations jobs throughout the league.