Bruce Bochy has been here before. None of the wins for the Texas Rangers come in subsequent years, but the boss of the team is a four-time World Series champion captain.
He has another chance now that the Rangers are recovering from their five-game win over the Arizona Diamondbacks next month.
” First of all, it’s difficult to win]the World Series ] one time, let alone repeat”, Bochy said last week in Surprise, Ariz. before the Rangers broke their spring training camp,” It’s obvious it’s a hard thing to do because it does n’t happen very often”.
The New York Yankees won three straight games under the direction of Joe Torre between 1998 and 2000. Seventeen of MLB’s 30 teams have won at least once since therefore, including the Rangers for the first time last year.

Bochy is on a clear path to becoming a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and the majority of the managers who have been inducted have not won back-to-back World Series championships. Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa, and Jim Leyland neither did Dick Williams or Tommy Lasorda, neither of whom have ever done it. Torre won four of his five Yankee victories in five times, and Sparky Anderson did it again in 1975 and 1976 with the Cincinnati Reds.
” We saw the Kansas City Chiefs do it this year in football”, Bochy said. ” If you can do it again, you can do it again”.
But it does n’t happen very often. The Chiefs won the final Super Bowl game over the San Francisco 49ers to become the first team to duplicate in the National Football League since the New England Patriots did it in 2004 and 2005.
Since 1998, the National Hockey League has had two Stanley Cup finalists in the past: Pittsburgh in 2016 and 2017, Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021, and Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2017.
Golden State in 2017 and 2018: The just follow fighter in the past 11 months, the National Basketball Association, has had one.
Bochy’s San Francisco Giants won three titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014, but in the odd years, the team did n’t come close to the playoffs. In 2011 they finished eight game out of the National League West, and in 2013 they were 16 games up. Both times they were unable to reach the playoffs due to a more restrictive exotic passport system than it is now.
Buster Posey, a Giants shortstop, suffered a left knee injury in a collision at the plate in 2011 and missed the previous four times. In 2013, Bochy recalled,” We probably did n’t pitch as well. Our act, we truly struggled to score runs. We were more cup- oriented there. Because we played so many strong ballgames, it was like a fine collection for us. That’s why it was called rape baseball”.
Bochy stated that his top players must have their standard years and all must remain healthy in order to repeat this time.
And he said,” And you also need a surprise or two and a small success along the way.” ” That’s what it’s going to take as well as staying hungry. This team also has that thirst for a championship, which it does. There’s no question in my mind they do”.

No group has the same staff from season to season, and the Rangers are no exception. Max Scherzer, a starting cup, will be out until at least May while recovering from season back surgery, and Jacob deGrom, a fellow start, is currently recovering from his minute Tommy John ligament alternative surgery on his right elbow. Left-hander Jordan Montgomery, who is set to enter a contract with the D-backs, signed a contract that will give him a year worth$ 25 million. He did n’t re-sign.
Mitch Garver, a catcher for the Seattle Mariners, agreed to a two-year,$ 24 million contract, which Bochy described as a especially troubling blow to his team.
These past few months, Rangers user Ray Davis has gone to great lengths to create a hero, signing Bochy, player Corey Seager, next baseman Marcus Semien and cup Nathan Eovaldi for a complete of$ 546 million. Seager won his second World Series MVP the previous month. In his first year as a Ranger in 2023, Bochy lost to the New York Yankees in 1998 while leading his second crew to the World Series for the second time.
In addition, deGrom cost Davis$ 185 million over five years and when general manager Chris Young was told to keep spending, he added Scherzer from the New York Mets at the trade deadline, inheriting$ 22.5 million of his$ 43.3 million option for this season, plus Montgomery from St. Louis, assuming$ 3.9 million.
By the end of the previous season, the Rangers had the fourth-highest payroll in MLB with a payroll of$ 251.3 million, which produced a championship.
This season saw the Rangers spend$ 30 million on four lower-level free agents, which made the plan change. Surprisingly, the Los Angeles Dodgers spent$ 1.09 billion on nine completely brokers- –much of that on Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto- –and the Giants$ 323.3 million on six completely agents.
The Texas pay is nonetheless$ 220.3 million, fifth in the group. That’s where thirst for winning and repeating all begins.
” This was all part of our strategy”, Young said in an interview earlier this spring. ” We did n’t know what the landscape would look like. But you ca n’t be that engaged every year. We’re trying to balance our recent investing with some of the internal people we have. We have a nice party of returning people in area.
Bochy left San Francisco in 2019 due to heart problems and in a fluster because of his subpar connection with Farhan Zaidi, the team’s second boss since then, after taking over the reins.
His friendship with Young, a Princeton alumnus who pitched for Bochy in San Diego, and the overdue Kevin Towers, who he once had with the Padres from 1995 to 2006, is also admirable. They won four section titles up.
Bochy described his time spent in San Diego and San Francisco as nice memories, where he spent the majority of his time working for Brian Sabean, who is now a consultant for the Patriots, under Brian Cashman.
” We had a great move up”, Bochy said. ” You’d consider that in a minute”.
Bochy is 68 and Young is 44.
Bochy now has another moment, or a time no less, to duplicate and do all that one much.
( The 14th paragraph of this article has been updated to reflect Jordan Montgomery’s decision to leave the free agent. )