The biggest names in the 2025 World Series need no introduction, and really don’t even need to be identified by their full name – merely saying “Shohei, Vladdy, Mookie, and Mad Max” tells you about all you need to know. But as we’ve long learned by now, the main characters of such a high-profile series often aren’t the players on the field at all. It’s the managers, who will have every last decision analyzed, picked apart and dissected, potentially for years to come – as Seattle’s Dan Wilson is very quickly understanding .

After all, the thing you remember most about the 2020 World Series isn’t any particular play or pitch -- it was Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash taking out Blake Snell just a touch too early in Game 6. Ask a Mets fan about Terry Collins leaving in Matt Harvey in 2015’s Game

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