"Major League Baseball, frustrated that their managerial and GM vacancies this winter were filled without a single minority hired from outside an organization..."

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revealed Thursday that it has dumped Korn Ferry as their leadership search firm.

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There were so many conflicts of interest with Korn Ferry as baseball’s search firm that it resulted in nothing more than friends hiring friends. Mostly all the hires had backgrounds with the Cleveland Indians, or had a relationship with Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro, the Indians’ former president and GM.