{"id":45662,"date":"2025-11-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:00:22","slug":"grateful-for-time-in-texas-bruce-bochy-has-returned-to-his-baseball-home-with-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45662\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grateful\u2019 for time in Texas, Bruce Bochy has returned to his baseball home with Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS – Last April, the Texas Rangers<\/a> made a trip to San Francisco, where part of the weekend included retirement ceremonies honoring Giants-favorite Brandon Crawford. <\/p>\n

Among the dignitaries on the field for the event: Bruce Bochy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite wearing a Rangers uniform, he might have gotten as warm a response as the day\u2019s honoree, a sign of just how much Bochy meant and still means to Giants fans. And it might help explain why Bochy bypassed the Rangers\u2019 offer to be a special assistant to President of Baseball Operations Chris Young to return to the Giants in a similar role. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what I\u2019d do when the season ended,\u201d Bochy told The Dallas Morning News<\/a> on Tuesday, a day after he was officially named as a special assistant to San Francisco\u2019s Buster Posey. \u201cI spent 13 years with San Francisco. After putting some thought to it, it\u2019s just where I thought I should be right now. There are a lot of familiar faces.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The most notable of those is Posey, who holds the same title with the Giants that Young holds with the Rangers. When Young lured Bochy back to managing after 2022, a not-insignificant part of the sales pitch involved the relationship Young forged with Bochy during one season together as a player in San Diego. Posey played under Bochy for 11 of his 13 seasons in the majors. The bonds are even stronger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I played, I didn\u2019t really consider him a friend; he was in the seat of power and I stayed in my lane,\u201d Posey said Tuesday at baseball\u2019s General Managers Meetings. \u201cBut I consider him a friend now. It\u2019s easy for me to pick up the phone and talk with him. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe reads people well, he\u2019s got a great mind for the game and we\u2019re just thrilled to have him back in the organization. I think I get most excited because I can tell he\u2019s excited about it as well.\u201d <\/p>\n

Though he\u2019d expressed interest in continuing to manage in September, Bochy said there was no animosity in his departure from the Rangers. He agreed with the label of it being a \u201cmutual decision<\/a>.\u201d Bochy said the Rangers had approached him about discussing a contract extension following the 2024 season, but he maintained that he\u2019d asked the team to put any talks off until after 2025 to see where he stood on continuing to manage. <\/p>\n

Among the things that Bochy discussed with Young, he said, included the potential that the Rangers would go with younger players. <\/p>\n

So he was aware that the club would go into a season with a lower payroll than the preceding year<\/a> for the first time since dropping from the preceding year for the first time since the club dropped from the planned $171 million in 2020 (the season and payroll was diminished further by the COVID shutdown) to $111 million in 2021. He did not indicate that the potential payroll drop had any impact on the decision to part ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad they gave me a chance to get that [managing again] out of my system,\u201d Bochy said, though he did not specifically use the word \u201cretire.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a good place right now. I really enjoyed my time with the team, the staff and the fans in Texas. I\u2019m grateful I got to get back in the dugout.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bochy said he talked with Skip Schumaker<\/a> after the latter was named Rangers manager in early October and praised his hire, but he wasn\u2019t concerned that his presence in Texas would hinder the new manager in any way. He will see Schumaker at an annual get-together born of baseball people with ties to San Diego in January. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was never a thought,\u201d Bochy said. \u201cI would never hover over anybody. [In San Francisco] I\u2019ll do whatever Buster asks wherever and whenever he thinks I can be of use. I\u2019ll be at the winter meetings as another set of eyes and ears for him. If there is something on the field with [first-year manager Tony Vitello], I\u2019ll do what I can. I\u2019ve gotten to know him, too. I\u2019m in a good spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas was a nice getaway for him, but San Francisco has become his baseball home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I had to sell him on it,\u201d Posey said. \u201cIt was more of a conversation like, \u2018You know, Boch, to me you are a Giant,\u201d and then I just gave him space.\u201c <\/p>\n

He is a giant – or Giant – in so many ways. And the Giant has gone home. <\/p>\n

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