Ben Clemens offers a report card on Rob Thomson’s NLCS management.Ken Rosenthal also laments the hard choices ahead for the Rangers.Tom Verducci looks at how the choice to bench those players leaves the Rangers with some hard decisions.The biggest World Series news of the moment is who won’t be playing, as the Rangers are forced to bench Max Scherzer and Adolis Garcia.There’s also a little spooky Halloween-themed fun in the mix for today, since yesterday was Halloween. We’ll dwell initially on the rough choice made by the Rangers to bench two players for the rest of the series, and then smatter in a bit more World Series insight (including two very different Tommy Pham stories). Welcome to November, friends! The World Series is still ongoing so not a lot of breaking news to be had.
