#Bruce Bochy

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Presenting Your 2023 World Series Champions: The Texas Rangers

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Random sports figures I have made. Jung Hoo Lee, Mike Trout, David Beckham, Ja Morant, Shohei Ohtani, Bruce Bochy, Aaron Judge, Dusty Baker, Logan Webb, Don Mattingly.

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Keep your eyes on the ball, if you miss, it will affect those around you.

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Dream matchup of managers: Bochy vs. Dusty

It’s been a while since I dialed in here on Scorecard Scribblings, and I vow to return in force like Paul Crew in the Longest Yard remake. What brings me out of my posting slumber? The ALCS matchup of my clear all-time favorites as baseball managers, Dusty Johnnie B. Baker and Bruce Douglas Bochy. I so wish I had credentials and the ability to cover those games. The two best managers I ever…

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Happy birthday to Bruce Bochy. I'm so thrilled to see you in the texas dugout

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Dutch Lion's 2023 MLB Preview

Baseball is back! What will happen in 2023? Dutch Lion breaks down the boys of summer and predicts what will happen this October.

Dutch Lion’s 2023 MLB Preview Here at Dutch Lion Sports, we feel the same as the great Mickey Mantle. We’re here to hit a home run. In our case, it’s to knock the ball out of the proverbial park in regards to our preview and predictions. Can we hit a home run with our picks this year? Well, we’re gonna swing hard in case we hit it. Last year we chose the Chicago White Sox over the Los Angeles…

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BREAKING: legendary manager Bruce Bochy has just been scared fucking shitless by a gentle spider descending on a gossamer thread.

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who are your fave 5 baseball players and why?👀

sara you askin g me this while im going through emotional turmoil is CRUEL (jk)

yadier molina - literally THE goat, the greatest catcher of all time (i will FIGHT). watching him as a catcher was one of the most incredible things of my life. he is quite literally the master of the field, constantly aware, has a fucking FANTASTIC arm (YOU DONT RUN ON YADI) and just all around a good man!!! does a lot of charity work and also just, seems to help everyone he gets a chance too. his relationship w waino is insane and i love it, theyre truly brothers. yadi was the glue that kept this team together and now hes GONE

adam wainwright - fantastic pitcher!!! but also just so fucking funny i love him, he always worked hard and despite all his setbacks kept coming back. he, like yadi, does a lot of charity work and helps both his community in georgia and in the st louis area. hes also a fucking country singer now?? and hes GOOD??? uncle charlie had a fantastic and devastating curveball. i love how much he loves yadi and vice versa. ugh. i adore it.

zack greinke - A FREAK!!! hes such a good pitcher but hes also a freak (affectionate) and just weird and just doesnt care about it. hes gone through so much mental health wise and just kept coming back and the fact that he could rake?? as a pitcher?? WHILE ALSO BEING A FANTASTIC PITCHER??? like what the fuck man. the fact hes a catdad is something i adore too. his personality is just... *chefs kiss* i always think about the time he took a ball from someone who asked him to sign it and just. chucked it into center field. and when asked why he did it he just said "for my amusement."

brandon crawford (wails) - fantastic short stop?? beautiful hair?? beautiful person??? seems like he's extremely chill and fun and hardworking. seems like a fantastic dad to his kids. (again) does a lot of charity work and i. just adore. a man who is so competent at baseball but also just a genuinely nice person.

tim lincecum - THE OG FREAK! i never got to watch him live but watching past clips??? ohhhh when i get my hands on you bruce bochy. why did you let him pitch so much. his hips EXPLODED because of you and he couldve been so good!!! HE COULDVE HAD SUCH A LONG CAREER!!!! the way he pitched the way he moved the long hair??? the two no hitters??? hes just. UGH. hes EVERYTHING. the fact that he smoked weed and got caught for it and was just like. whatever. the way hes just. quietly living his life. i adore him and i miss him and i just. i want to see him pitch ONCE

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Highly suspicious from Bruce Bochy letting every team except the Mariners and the Angels have a player actually play in the all-star game when we're both in Texas's division...

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77-84, game 162, last-day-of-school energy, some poetry I can’t and won’t write right now about losing #162 and thus setting the path to the trophy, but winning 8-0 the day before heading home for the long lull after a losing season. I love you Jacob deGrom I love you Wyatt Langford I love you Josh Smith I love you Corey and Marcus and Travis and both Nates and Leody and Evan and Josh, Kumar, Jack, someone named Walter Pennington, DRob, Yates, Jose Leclerc. I love you Bruce Bochy. It’ll be odd years this time.

See you in Surprise my beloveds

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2024 MLB American League All-Stars Roster

Pitchers

#00 Tyler Anderson (Los Angeles Angels/Las Vegas, Nevada)

#19 Mason Miller (Oakland Athletics/Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)

#29 Tarik Skubal (Detroit Tigers/Kingman, Arizona)

#39 Corbin Burnes (Baltimore Orioles/Bakersfield, California)

#45 Garrett Crochet (Chicago White Sox/Ocean Springs, Mississippi)

#48 Emmanuel Clase (Cleveland Guardians/Río San Juan, DR)

#52 Clay Holmes (New York Yankees/Slocomb, Alabama)

#55 Cole Ragans (Kansas City Royals/Tallahassee, Florida)

#67 Jacob Lugo (Kansas City Royals/Bossier City, Louisiana)

#75 Andrés Muñoz (Seattle Mariners/Los Mochis, Mexico)

#89 Tanner Houck (Boston Red Sox/Collinsville, Illinois)

#93 Kirby Yates (Texas Rangers/Kauai County, Hawaii)

Catchers

#13 Salvador Pérez (Kansas City Royals/Valencia, Venezuela)

#35 Adley Rutschman (Baltimore Orioles/Sherwood, Oregon)

Infielders

#2 Gunnar Henderson (Baltimore Orioles/Selma, Alabama)

#5 Corey Seager (Texas Rangers/Kannapolis, North Carolina)

#6 David Fry (Cleveland Guardians/Grapevine, Texas)

#7 Bobby Witt; Jr. (Kansas City Royals/Colleyville, Texas)

#10 Marcus Semien (Texas Rangers/Berkeley, California)

#11 José Ramírez (Cleveland Guardians/Baní, Dominican Republic)

#12 Jordan Westburg (Baltimore Orioles/New Braunfels, Texas)

#17 Isaac Paredes (Tampa Bay Rays/Hermosillo, Mexico)

#21 Joshua-Douglas Naylor (Cleveland Guardians/Mississauga, ON)

#27 Vladimir Guerrero; Jr. (Toronto Blue Jays/Santiago, DR)

#50 Willi Castro (Minnesota Twins/San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Outfielders

#16 Jarren Duran (Boston Red Sox/Cypress, California)

#22 Juan Soto; Jr. (New York Yankees/Santo Domingo, DR)

#25 Anthony Santander (Baltimore Orioles/Ciudad Agua Blanca, VZ)

#31 Riley Greene (Detroit Tigers/Oviedo, Florida)

#38 Steven Kwan (Cleveland Guardians/Fremont, California)

#44 Yordan Álvarez (Houston Astros/Ciudad Las Tunas, Cuba)

#99 Aaron Judge (New York Yankees/San Joaquin County, CA)

Manager

Bruce Bochy (Texas Rangers/Melbourne, Florida)

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I had an extremely vivid dream last night that the Mariners traded Julio and Cal Raleigh for Bruce Bochy last night. it was the first manager trade in the history of baseball. then when Bruce got to Seattle for his first press conference, his name was spelled bocchi on the name tag on the desk in front of him. No one acknowledged it. Then a small asian child came up to him and told him that the mariners had killed her family by trading Julio, but she may be able to forgive Bruce if they won the pennant. It was the most vivid dream I’ve had in years.

seattle is like the last city where he could get away with that spelling change

also the rangers with julio is an instant dynasty, i genuinely think seattle would burn down if that ever happened

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fun fact: the manager of the team that won the world series is named Bruce Bochy

Bocchy the manager...

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Craig Counsell Always Wanted to End Up With the Cubs

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As Craig Counsell headed into manager free agency this month, two objectives stood at the top of his wish list: kickstart what had been a fallow financial market for managers and coaches and to honor his Midwestern roots. Only the Cubs could satisfy those two objectives. That is why he is the Chicago manager today.

The results of managerial manic Monday—Counsell to the Cubs, David Ross out of a job in Chicago, Carlos Mendoza to the Mets and Stephen Vogt to the Guardians—seemed shocking in the staccato burst of news. Counsell to the Cubs seemed like the biggest shock of all. But based on Counsell’s roots and desire to get to free agency in the first place, the result makes perfect sense.

The Cubs knew this, which is why they placed a call to him on the first day he was a free agent.

Chicago was very much aware that Counsell grew up and lives in Wisconsin, played at Notre Dame, has sons playing college baseball at Minnesota and Michigan and has two daughters in high school in Wisconsin. “The Midwest [pull] is real,” says one source familiar with negotiations between Counsell and the Cubs.

As the Cubs did their homework, knowing Counsell chose to play this year out rather than sign an extension with Milwaukee, they were told by one of Counsell’s friends, “If he ever managed anywhere else, the Cubs have always been his dream job.”

Counsell became a free agent on Nov. 1, the day after his Milwaukee contract expired. The Cubs called Nov. 1, such was their interest in acquiring what one team source called “one of the one or two best managers in the game.”

By then, the Mets already had contacted Counsell. They jump-started the process when David Stearns, the Mets’ newly hired president of baseball operation, called his old club, Milwaukee, for permission to talk to Counsell before his contract expired. With the money of New York owner Steve Cohen and with the shared history of Stearns and Counsell—seven years together as GM and manager in Milwaukee—the Mets were portrayed as the most likely team to sign Counsell.

There were two problems with that assumption. Stearns did not hire Counsell in Milwaukee. He inherited him when he was named GM in September 2015. They worked well together but were not particularly close, especially as Milwaukee emphasized analytics more in game decisions. Moreover, the Mets’ advantage of money was offset by geography and where the team stands on the winning curve. It is not a plum job despite plum money.

“Over the last few days people were still writing that it looked like it was Counsell’s job,” says a source who spoke to Counsell during that time. “That wasn’t the case. He was all but out over the past few days. New York was not at the top of his list.”

Says one executive, “If you look at recent history, managers don’t come out well on the other side of that job.”

Mendoza will be the sixth named manager of the Mets in the past eight seasons, following Terry Collins, Mickey Callaway, Carlos Beltran, Luis Rojas and Buck Showalter. Going back to Jerry Manuel and Art Howe, the past seven Mets managers have not landed another managing gig after leaving Queens.

Stearns needed a manager with experience and/or a working understanding of the New York landscape. He settled on Mendoza, the former Yankees bench coach who turns 44 this month and has not managed above Class A ball. It comes at a time when the race to identify the next inexperienced managerial whiz has lost its luster as experience returns results. The ages of the past six World Series managers: 58 (Torey Lovullo), 59 (Rob Thomson), 65 (Brian Snitker), 68 (Bruce Bochy), 72 (Dusty Baker) and 73 (Baker).

The Mets were 29 games worse than Atlanta last year, the furthest they have been from first place in 20 years. The job comes with uncertainty in terms of how quickly they can rebuild. Likewise, Counsell’s free agency came just as Milwaukee is staring at a rebuild. Pitcher Brandon Woodruff underwent shoulder surgery and could be out for all of next year. Pitcher Corbin Burnes and shortstop Willy Adames could be traded this winter in advance of pending free agency.

The Cubs, however, are on the upswing, just as they were (if not quite as sharply) when the team dumped incumbent manager Rick Renteria in favor of free agent manager Joe Maddon after the 2014 season. Similarly, the Cubs liked Ross but decided when one of the game’s best managers is available and that person has strong ties to the Midwest, they felt obligated to pursue the top talent.

Chicago gave Counsell $40 million over five years. The annual salary of $8 million is a record, topping the $7.5 million Joe Torre earned from the Yankees more than 20 years ago ($13.3 million in today’s dollars). As analytics grew in baseball, executives became stars, not managers. Executives not only came to earn more than managers but they also reduced the influence of managers by relying on information-backed systems rather than wisdom.

For instance, when the Cubs hired Maddon, they paid him $5 million per year. President of baseball operations Theo Epstein was making $3.7 million. By the time Epstein left he was making $10 million, and the manager/GM balance of power in MLB had flipped.

The financial market for managers cratered in the analytics age. Terry Francona, with two World Series titles, reportedly was the game’s highest paid manager last season at $4.5 million. Maddon’s contract eight years ago (before he won a title) equates to $6.8 million in today’s dollars. Likewise, contracts for major league coaches remain stagnant at a time when the minimum player salary has risen 42% in the past eight years to $720,000.

“That’s one reason why you see so many coaches today who never played in the big leagues,” says one AL coach. “It’s almost like asking, ‘Who wants to coach for $120,000?’ There are a lot of guys who never played who would volunteer in a heartbeat. But if you’re in a big market, with taxes and living expenses, you’re almost working for free.”

The investment in Counsell is a signal that the Cubs are all in next season. You don’t hand out the most lucrative contract for a manager without consolidating that investment on the player side.

Conversely, the Brewers offered Counsell a raise from $3.5 million to $5.5 million but were never going to get to the level of Cubs money. Just days ago, they traded veteran outfielder Mark Canha to Detroit for a minor league reliever, rather than bring him back for $11.5 million or pay a $2 million buyout.

“What I don’t get is why the Brewers just didn’t pay to keep him,” says a source close to Counsell.

Based on how the teams are positioned and market resources, Counsell was worth more to the Cubs than to the Brewers. Milwaukee is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning with Pat Murphy, Counsell’s bench coach and former coach at Notre Dame, about replacing Counsell. Murphy also is expected to be offered a job on Counsell’s staff in Chicago.

Milwaukee could stay in house as it develops young players from its productive farm system, or it could try to take the public relations sting out of losing the franchise’s best manager—to the rival Cubs, no less—by hiring a “name brand” manager. Among those likely choices, according to a source, are Ross and Don Mattingly.