Le roi est mort, vive le roi!

The San Francisco Giants bring back both Bruce Bochy and Hunter Pence to the fold. It's a familiar pattern for management--Felipe Alou was retained after his replacement and Dusty Baker returned after his falling out. The front office is littered with former coaches and players. That's a good thing. I like organizations that conserve resources. People are the resource. If you put that much faith in someone, even if you part ways or change the relationship, they still have "the stuff" that made you believe in them in the first place! I'm glad Boch isn't going to another organization. He has a lot of baseball wisdom. Some of these so-called old school guys are human calculators. Boch knew all the odds. The saber-istas use a run expectancy matrix and linear weights and whatnot but ol' Bruce had all that in his gigantic head already. He'd been collecting the data and analyzing it for years. I'll bet he asks the best questions in the meetings with the analytics gang. Plus, he's known for his character and personality, and you can never have too much of that.

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