It’s become all too familiar these days: A player feels slighted, whether due to performance struggles or clubhouse dynamics, and immediately reaches for the big, shiny red button marked “RACISM.”

Jazz Chisholm, the New York Yankees player who’s made more headlines for his comments than his bat, is the latest to make that reckless dive.

Here’s the thing: Baseball is, by any reasonable metric, one of the most diverse professional sports leagues in the world. Chisholm’s claims that MLB is a “white sport” are founded on a simplistic, cherry-picked statistic that only serves to distort the truth.

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