Is racism keeping Jermaine Dye out of baseball?
That was the insinuation made by Orlando Hudson, the veteran second baseman of the Minnesota Twins, in a column penned by Yahoo baseball scribe (and former Post intern) Jeff Passan. “You see guys like Jermaine Dye without a job,” Hudson told Passan. “Guy with [27 homers and 81 RBI] and can’t get a job. Pretty much sums it up right there, no? You’ve got some guys who miss a year who can come back and get $5, $6 million, and a guy like Jermaine Dye can’t get a job. A guy like Gary Sheffield, a first-ballot Hall of Famer, can’t get a job.” Then, Hudson practically dares Passan to write it: “We both know what it is. You’ll get it right. You’ll figure it out. I’m not going to say it because then I’ll be in [trouble].” Passan’s piece came just hours after media reports suggested the Washington Nationals’ recent talks with Dye are essentially dead. And Dye himself told MLB.com’s Bill Ladson he isn’t willing to uproot his family from Arizona unless a team overwhelms him with an offer: “When yo
