Bruce Bochy
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Bruce Douglas Bochy (; born April 16, 1955) is an American baseball manager and former player. Bochy played as a catcher for the Houston Astros, New York Mets, and San Diego Padres. After retiring as a player, Bochy became first a minor league coach and later major league manager. He managed the Padres for 12 seasons (1995—2006), the San Francisco Giants for 13 seasons (2007—2019), and the Texas Rangers for 3 seasons (2023—2025). As manager, Bochy led the Padres to one World Series appearance (1998), the Giants to three World Series championships (2010, 2012, 2014), and the Rangers to the franchise's first World Series championship in his first season with the club (2023). He is one of three managers to win a World Series championship in both leagues. Bochy has the sixth most wins as a manager in MLB History and was the 11th manager 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. Born in France to American parents, 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 MLB history to win at least 900 games with two different teams.