... high in the flush times. Beyond baseball, managing people involves staffing (hiring, succes-sion planning, firing, promoting, setting goals); coaching (giving training and guidance); evaluating ... playing time for prospects. In baseball, managing people involves building a roster of comple-mentary talents: setting daily lineups and pitching rotations; providing coaching; setting goals; ... lugging. Then, at the speed of a tectonic plate, the lug went into the least graceful slide I’d seen since Little League. Finally, to add injury to insult, he crashed into the in- fielder tagging...