Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a low-suspense awards week, the vastly varying paths to being a major league manager, the latest sign of the Angels player-development apocalypse, Brian Cashman on Giancarlo Stanton, the death of Padres owner Peter Seidler, Michael Jordan’s baseball career on For All Mankind, how much holding runners matters, and how to judge how many championships a franchise “should” have won, then Stat Blast (1:08:56) about postseason baserunning, scoring first in October, winning rings without playing a lot, and players who lost a lot of WAR, plus a PSA (1:31:02) about EW Secret Santa.

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Posnanski on unanimous awards

Link to Meg’s preseason predictions

Link to “Imperial phase” wiki

Link to Sheehan on managers

Link to story on college-coach managers

Link to Blum on Percival

Link to Cashman’s comments

Link to Stanton’s agent’s response

Link to NYT Seidler obit

Link to FAM Jordan image

Link to Petriello on running prevention

Link to the EW wiki on Lester

Link to running prevention leaderboards

Link to BP piece on championships

Link to Topps Now

Link to Rob Mains on October baserunning

Link to Rob on comebacks

Link to “scoring first” sheet

Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

Link to low-playing-time-rings sheet

Link to Bellinger on EW

Link to Gore on EW

Link to “lost WAR” sheet

Link to FG on Doumit’s framing

Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet

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