Tag: Bruce Bochy

Bruce Bochy’s recliner joke perfectly summed up his journey to a Rangers World Series win

Bruce Bochy went from relaxing in retirement to leading a World Series effort for the Rangers.

The Texas Rangers have won their first World Series in franchise history, and they have future Hall of Fame manager Bruce Bochy to thank for that.

After leading the San Francisco Giants to three titles as manager, Bochy came out of retirement this past offseason after a few years away to manage the Rangers.

It wound up working out spectacularly, as Bochy led the Rangers to a championship over the Arizona Diamondbacks in his first season managing the dugout.

While reflecting after the big win on how he got to this moment, Bochy recalled how he was relaxing in a recliner in Nashville, Tennessee, before he got the call to come back to the majors.

It’s really neat to hear Bochy describe how dramatically his life changed and how much it means to him to get to celebrate yet another impressive title effort.

While Bochy didn’t really need to do anything else to confirm his future Hall of Fame status, this is just the icing on the cake for the legendary manager.

Now, he can return to Arlington to help Texas potentially win another title next year.

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Bruce Bochy was rightfully ‘dumbfounded’ by questionable overturned call on Rangers for blocking the plate

Was this REALLY a case of a catcher blocking the plate violation?

Look at the screenshot above of Texas Rangers catcher Jonah Heim as Chicago White Sox infielder Elvis Andrus is getting ready to slide into home.

Do you see Heim impeding Andrus’s path? I see his foot on the plate, but he’s standing back. There’s plenty of space for Andrus.

That’s what the home plate umpire thought in the Rangers’ eventual loss on Tuesday. Andrus was initially called out. But the replay center overturned the call. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was rightfully furious, got ejected and talked about it after the game.

To me, it was questionable enough not to overturn. But that’s not what officials saw:

WATCH: San Francisco Giants hire Gabe Kapler as new manager

Gabe Kapler is now the manager of the San Francisco Giants.

About a month after being fired by the Phillies, Gabe Kapler is now the manager of the San Francisco Giants. He takes over for Bruce Bochy, who retired this fall after 25 years as a manager, including 13 seasons with the Giants.

Kapler was fired Oct. 10 after two years in Philadelphia, where his squad hovered around .500 both seasons.

Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said at the end of San Francisco’s 2019 season that the number one quality in their next manager would be relationship building with the players.

Zaidi and Kapler worked together a few years ago in Los Angeles, where Zaidi was the Dodgers’ general manager and Kapler served as the director of player development.

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