That Which Can't Be Asked

The Athletic, like virtually all other news outlets (sports or otherwise), covered the recent hiring of Kim Ng as general manager of the Marlins. And, like virtually everyone else, The Atlantic ran stories on how important it was. So far, so good. Then, on Thursday I read another story, “The White Sox international scouting operations isn’t missing a beat.” As ever, MLB teams will spare no expense unearthing talent, provided the player is male. How come, in all the stories on Ng, no one seems to have asked her if she intends to devote team resources to scouting and developing female ballplayers? Either that question is too hard to ask, or the answer risks telling us more than we want to know about the national pastime.