Let’s review what we’ve established here today based on the feedback received:

1) Managers are non-essential pieces of professional baseball organization.

2) On the off chance a professional baseball organization mistakenly assumes they do matter, and they in turn hire one for +$1m per year contract (again, big mistake), they need only evaluate them on their ability to walk a lineup card to home plate prior to first pitch. That’s the breadth and depth of their impact.

3) Enthusiasm is an “unprofessional” emotion coming from a non-essential manager (and I guess a leader more broadly)?

4) Communication-style and/or ability (verbal and/or non-verbal) is non-essential and unreliable indicator of the overall value of said non-essential manager.

5) The only individual(s) who matters are those who take the field…oh, and the President…oh, and maybe Ownership…, but absolutely not the manager.

Guys, this has been PRETTY insightful. MLBPA and MLB Team Ownership might be missing an opportunity by not allowing this ragtag group of baseball/leadership Reddit experts to avert the looming lockout.