Coach Bruce Bochy hugs Brandon Crawford after winning Game 4 of the World Series in 2012 when he was with the San Francisco Giants. AP Alliance The San Francisco Giants ruled out the possibility of appointing former Texas Rangers coach Bruce Bochy, who led San Francisco to the World Series championship three times in the 2010s, to the head coach position, which was vacant due to the replacement of Bob Melvin.
In an interview with local media at Oracle Park on the 2nd (Korea time), San Francisco President Buster Posey said, `The door is always open to what role we can play in our club. However, he said, "I will not go with Bochi (director)."
"We didn't do well in the second half of this season," Posey said. There are a lot of good things, but in the end, we didn't achieve our goal this year"It's a fact that we always try to be a strong team. Looking to find someone to make this happen in the dugout for years to come. Interviews with candidates will begin this week."
President Posey declined to comment on the conditions of the successor's head coach, which means that former head coach Bochy was not even included in the candidate for the new head coach.
He also recently disclosed that he had talked with former coach Bochy, and he said there was a comment about a position other than the coach. For example, it is a role such as an advisor to a club or an assistant to the owner.
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| Coach Bruce Bochy gave Texas the joy of winning its first World Series in 2023. AFP Yonhap News |
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San Francisco marked the regular season with 81 wins and 81 losses on the 29th of last month, failing to advance to the postseason for the fourth consecutive year. In particular, this season, the investments made over the past two to three years were expected to bear fruit, but they failed to achieve their goal due to lack of strength in the second half of the race.
San Francisco has acquired Matt Chapman ($151 million for six years), Lee Jung-hoo ($113 million for six years) and Willy Adames ($182 million for seven years) in the offseason since the end of 2023, and brought Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox with eight and a half years remaining of his 10-year, $313 million contract in June. At that time, it was evaluated as a loss due to the loss of major starters such as Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison.
This year, however, San Francisco failed to produce the expected results due to the problem of the batting lineup, which created an atmosphere that it might re-recruit former coach Bochy, who became free after his three-year contract with Texas ended.
Former coach Bochy has the record for the most wins among active coaches. From 1995 to this season, he recorded a total of 2,252 wins and 2,266 losses (0.498) in 28 seasons for the San Diego Padres, San Francisco and Texas. He has won the World Series four times. In terms of career coach wins, he is ranked sixth in all time. All five players, including Connie Mack (3731 wins), Tony Larusa (2884 wins), John McGraw (2763 wins), Bobby Cox (2504 wins), and Joe Torre (2326 wins), who led more wins, were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In particular, he led the team to wins in 2010, 2012, and 2014 when he was at the helm of San Francisco, and became the World Series winning coach again in 2023, his first season in Texas.
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| Coach Bruce Bochy's three-year contract with the Texas Rangers ended this year. AP Yonhap News |
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He only took the helm for three years from 2020 to 2022. During this period, he also served as the head coach of the French national baseball team. However, he is 70 years old this year, and he still has the will to be an active coach. They say it's not time to leave the ground yet.
Bochy told local media last week, `It's so much fun while playing baseball. I remember saying the same thing when I came back here. When you are outside, you develop deeper affection and appreciation. In particular, I realized how blessed I was to be a coach after spending three years here. It's a very interesting thing. I still like this job and enjoy it."
But now, at least in San Francisco, he is more likely to work as a member of the club's front office than as a manager.
Posey, who became San Francisco's president last year following his predecessor, Blue Zaidi, decided to work for three years until 2027. He said "Our goal for three years is entirely given to me. We must focus on the present. It's an idea I have during my tenure. I want to do this longer, but I need to focus on what I'm doing right now"He expressed his will to win the championship.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
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