WHY IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT THERE ARE NOW NO HISPANIC OR LATINO MANAGERS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

With nine wins and 28 losses, the Atlanta Braves are the worst team in Major League Baseball. As often happens when a team struggles so mightily, ownership has decided to fire the team's manager.

Fredi González, who had managed the club since 2011, is out; Brian Snitker, previously of the franchise's AAA affiliate, is in (at least for the interim). It's not unusual that the person in charge of a team that started the season with such a poor record has been relieved of his duties. What is unusual is that Gonzalez, a Cuban-American, was the last Latino or Hispanic manager in all of Major League Baseball. Now there are none.

More so than any other sport, baseball is beholden to tradition. It is conservative. It is stubborn. It is resistant to change. No one has any trouble acknowledging this in the context of how the game is played, or even its oft-controversial "unwritten rules." What is harder to acknowledge is the degree to which this conservatism pervades the values of those within the game. White people have always been at the top of the game's decision-making—and thus managerial—hierarchy, and this continues to be the case into the 21st century.