{"id":288582,"date":"2022-11-11T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=288582"},"modified":"2022-11-21T02:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:54:42","slug":"mlb-struggling-to-find-next-dusty-baker-dave-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-struggling-to-find-next-dusty-baker-dave-roberts","title":{"rendered":"MLB struggling to find next Dusty Baker, Dave Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; (AP) &#8212; When the Houston Astros wildly celebrated in the dugout Saturday with manager Dusty Baker after he finally broke through to win a World Series, the scene was notable for several reasons.Baker had been close so often, going to the postseason 11 prior times and the World Series twice. But also notable, Baker became just the third Black manager to win the championship, joining Cito Gaston in 1992 and 1993 with the Toronto Blue Jays and Dave Roberts in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Baker and Roberts are the only active Black managers in the major leagues.&#8220;The problem isn&#8217;t solved,&#8221; Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos said at this week&#8217;s GM meetings, which concluded Thursday at a Las Vegas Strip resort. &#8220;What&#8217;s the solution? Clearly we haven&#8217;t gotten to it.&#8221;Baker knew what the moment meant, expressing his feelings before the Game 6 clinching victory.&#8220;I do know that there&#8217;s certain pressure from a lot of people that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; (AP) &#8212; When the Houston Astros wildly celebrated in the dugout Saturday with manager Dusty Baker after he finally broke through to win a World Series, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}