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The Rundown: Grading Epstein, White Sox Part Ways With Renteria, Morgan Passes, Beane Expected to Leave A’s, Fans Attend NLCS

Exit interviews are a staple of corporate culture and sports teams have adopted similar annual evaluations of personnel as a way to bridge the end of one season to the start of the next. In fact, since the start of this century, baseball has truly become a year-round sport. It is usually just within a week or so of the final game of the World Series that teams close the books on one season and open them up for the next.

If this is indeed the last season that Theo Epstein will lead the Cubs, how will he be graded at the time of his exit?