They also scored 6,610 runs, the fourth-fewest number of runs in Major League Baseball during that span. From 2010-2019, the Giants won three championships and reached the postseason one more time. In just 115 games, Bruce Bochy has had a better lineup than he ever had with the Giants.Ī fun thing to do is be real super fair to the Giants and Bruce Bochy’s tenure and just look at the 2010s.
They have no position where a hitter isn’t at least 10% better than the league average, in fact. Their entire lineup features above league average hitters. They have the second-best defense in Baseball, too (though best in the AL). The second-best team ( Dodgers) trails them by 3 wins. Their lineup leads all of Baseball not just in runs scored (659 - 5.7/game) but wins above replacement (26.8 fWAR). They had six All-Stars in this year’s game, the most of any AL team, with four players - second baseman Marcus Semien, shortstop Corey Seager, third baseman Josh Jung, and catcher Jonah Heim - voted in by the fans to be All-Star Game starters. These Rangers are a team of All-Stars streaking across the night’s sky. In San Diego, he managed a franchise that’d largely been a punchline or merely an “also ran.” Oh sure, he had Barry Bonds for a time, but the franchise was mainly concerned with Bonds being the show and everyone else supporting that. and maybe win another World Series.īochy’s already a Hall of Famer, but the “going out in a blaze of glory” this Texas Rangers team offers him will be a great capper to a career of a man who has made the most out of a lot of tough situations. He waited for the right opportunity to jump back into the fray, and now he has the chance to retire with a winning managerial record.
That’s a far simpler task for the Rangers than it is the Giants - because of the park, because of the lack of income tax in Texas.Īnd so here we are watching our rebuilding team face off against Bruce Bochy’s new rebuilt team. Buy, draft, or develop nine every day guys and get you a rotation of real starters. The main way to do that, I think - and as evidenced by the Rangers’ roster construction - is simply by having a roster that doesn’t require platoons or More With Less pitching plans. Of course, Bruce Bochy wasn’t afraid of analytics or even AI determining lineup configurations and late-game matchups - these were things the Giants had incorporated during his tenure - but he was a manager who needed to feel in control. Then Chris Young (the really tall pitcher) became the GM for the Texas Rangers and convinced Bruce Bochy that he’d handle the Smart Guy stuff and leave the Baseball managing to him. He said he’d come back, but given how much the game had changed and how he’d (seemingly) failed to change along with it, another manager’s job seemed unlikely. The game had worked long and hard to nuke guys like him and, finally, he was the last man standing.
Those 2017-2019 seasons were painful not just because of the play on the field but by how Bruce Bochy, their famous manager, felt suddenly incongruous. Maybe for some of us those Bochy memories curdled for a time as the franchise entered a post-success era. So weird to type.īaseball’s beauty is tempered by its entropy. The glory days are far in the past now, but for those of us who lived through it a lot of memories are still available in a moment’s notice. Not in a million years did any of us see that coming.
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The San Francisco Giants won three World Series in the 2010s thanks to strong pitching, Buster Posey, and Bruce Bochy.
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