French-American baseball player and manager (born 1955)
This article is about the baseball catcher and manager. For the utility player, see Bruce Bochte.
Baseball player
Bruce Bochy
Bochy in March 2017
Texas Rangers – No. 15
Catcher / Manager
Born: (1955-04-16) April 16, 1955 (age 69) Landes de Boussac, Bussac-Forêt, France
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
July 19, 1978, for the Houston Astros
Last MLB appearance
October 4, 1987, for the San Diego Padres
MLB statistics
Batting average
.239
Home runs
26
Runs batted in
93
Managerial record
2,123–2,133
Winning %
.499
Teams
As player
Houston Astros (1978–1980)
New York Mets (1982)
San Diego Padres (1983–1987)
As manager
San Diego Padres (1995–2006)
San Francisco Giants (2007–2019)
Texas Rangers (2023–present)
As coach
San Diego Padres (1993–1994)
Career highlights and awards
4× World Series champion (2010, 2012, 2014, 2023)
NL Manager of the Year (1996)
Bruce Douglas Bochy (/ˈboʊtʃi/; born April 16, 1955) is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). During his playing career, Bochy was a catcher for the Houston Astros, New York Mets, and San Diego Padres. After retiring as a player, Bochy managed the Padres for 12 seasons, from 1995 to 2006, and the San Francisco Giants for 13 seasons, from 2007 to 2019. As manager, Bochy led the Giants to three World Series championships, the Padres to one World Series appearance, and the Rangers to the franchise's first World Series championship in his first season with the club. He is one of only three managers to win a World Series championship in both leagues, joining Sparky Anderson and Tony LaRussa as the others. Bochy is the 11th manager in MLB history to achieve 2,000 wins.
Bochy is the only former Padres player to serve as the team's manager on a non-interim basis. He participated in the first five postseason appearances in Padres history, as a backup catcher in 1984 and as their manager in 1996, 1998, 2005, and 2006. In 1998, he led the Padres to their first National League (NL) pennant in 14 years; however, they lost the 1998 World Series to the New York Yankees.
Bochy reached the World Series for a second time as the manager of the 2010 Giants, this time in a winning effort over the Texas Rangers, and brought the first ever World Series Championship home to the city of San Francisco; it was the first for the Giants franchise since 1954. Two years later, in the 2012 World Series, by sweeping the Detroit Tigers, Bochy managed the Giants to their second World Series Championship win in three years. He reached the World Series for a fourth time, in 2014, and managed his third World Championship in five years, this time leading the Giants over the Kansas City Royals in seven games. In 2023, he came out of retirement to lead his third different franchise to the World Series as the manager of the American League Champion Texas Rangers, joining Bill McKechnie and Dick Williams with that distinction. He is the first manager to do so by way of winning the League Championship Series (the LCS did not exist prior to 1969), and just one of seven managers in baseball history to win four or more World Series.
Bochy was both the first foreign-born manager to reach the World Series (1998) and the first European-born manager to win the World Series (2010). On July 23, 2013, he became the 21st manager with 1500 wins. On April 10, 2017, Bochy surpassed Dusty Baker for the most wins in the West Coast portion of Giants history. He is the only manager in Major League history to win at least 900 games with two different teams.
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