Baseball Chat

[blackcat]

OK-it's a small start.....

Sixteen-year-old French shortstop Melissa Mayeux became the first international woman eligible to be signed by a Major League Baseball team on Sunday when she was added to the league's registration list for the signing period beginning on July 2. Odds are that teams will pass on signing Mayeux until she is at least 18 years old, but the fact that such a thing is possible is a pretty fantastic advancement in the conversation around a sport that is almost totally gender-divided from a young age.

Hopefully Mayeux will only be the first of many women who are able to stay in baseball long enough to potentially make waves in MLB. What would it even be like for a female to crack a big-league roster? Is there really any good reason why the sport should remain male-only? A few female baseball writers from around SB Nation got together to discuss the implications of the Mayeux news and what it might be like for a female trying to break into Major League Baseball.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/6/23/8827127/melissa-mayeux-mlb-roundtable