Last month in Arizona, 38 miles apart, the two managers who shared the World Series stage last autumn returned to work after very different offseasons.
Texas manager Bruce Bochy spent his winter basking in the glow of his fourth career championship, the first in franchise history for the Rangers.
"You get a deeper appreciation for something like this after you step back from the game," Bochy said on a recent sunny day at Rangers camp in Surprise, Arizona. "You take them all in, in different ways. I just enjoyed having all my family there, including my grandkids.