Former San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy mutually agreed with the Texas Rangers to step away from managing the ball club.
With the Giants firing manager Bob Melvin, Bochy’s old post has opened up, and the Giants’ president of baseball operations is his former MVP catcher, Buster Posey. If anyone can convince him to come back, it would be Posey.
Bob Nightengale of USA Today floated the idea of Posey calling his old skipper up to see if the four-time champion would consider a return to the Bay Area.
“It will be fascinating to see now if Buster Posey gets the band together and tries to lure Bruce Bochy back to San Francisco,” Nightengale posted to X.
Bochy managed the Giants to three World Series titles with Posey as a headlining star in the early 2010s. At the end of the 2019 season, Bochy retired from managing before returning to baseball with the Rangers and winning the 2023 World Series. Since he retired in 2019, the Giants have been through two managers and are in the midst of a four-year playoff drought.
The Giants started the year strong and looked to compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres for the division crown, but would collapse in the back half of the season and miss out on the playoffs entirely, ending 81-81. With a roster built to win, the Giants need the right man to write the lineup. Bochy is the winningest active manager and has the pedigree. What better place to wrap up his career than the place where he found the most success?
It is unlikely to be a long tenure for Bochy, who has already retired once and was one of the oldest managers in Major League Baseball this season, but if he were to return, would it make sense anywhere other than San Francisco?
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