So how long until general manager Jon Daniels offers Adrian Beltre the manager's chair for next year? And do player-managers count against the 25- and 40-man rosters?
-- Bill F., Arlington
Beltre has expressed zero interest in managing. Besides, not sure how this bizarre fondness for charismatic ex-players with zero experience as a managerial candidate ever got started. There are too many ex-managers out there just alone who have won or been to the World Series. That someone is a candidate just because they sound good on television seems insulting to interim manager Don Wakamatsu, first-base coach Steve Buechele, third-base coach Tony Beasley and others with a long resume of invaluable experience that didn't involve sitting in front of a camera.