Bruce Bochy hired as Rangers manager

Photo by Sebastian Widmann/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty ImagesBruce Bochy has been hired as the manager for the Texas Rangers, the team announced today. Bochy has signed a three year contract, covering the 2023-25 seasons.

Less than two hours ago I wrote that I thought the job was Bochy’s if he wanted it, and it appears that he did want it. Bochy spent twenty five years as the manager for the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants, and was at the helm of the Giants teams that won the World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

General manager Chris Young pitched for Bochy while both were with the Padres, and Bochy has been mentioned as a likely candidate for the job since Chris Woodward was…