43 Facts About Bruce Bochy

Bruce Bochy is best known for managing the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball from 2007 to 2019.

Bruce Bochy led the Giants to three World Series championships, and previously led the Padres to one World Series appearance.

Bruce Bochy was the 11th manager in MLB history to achieve 2,000 wins.

Bruce Bochy is the only former Padres player to serve as the team's manager on a non-interim basis.

Bruce Bochy participated in the first five postseason appearances in Padres history, as a backup catcher in 1984 and as their manager in 1996,1998,2005, and 2006.

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Bruce Bochy reached the World Series for a second time as the manager of the 2010 Giants, this time in a winning effort over the Texas Rangers, and brought the first ever World Series Championship home to the city of San Francisco; it was the first for the Giants franchise since 1954.

Two years later, in the 2012 World Series, by sweeping the Detroit Tigers, Bruce Bochy managed the Giants to their second World Series Championship win in three years.

Bruce Bochy reached the World Series for a fourth time, in 2014, and managed his third World Championship in five years, this time leading the Giants over the Kansas City Royals in seven games.

Bruce Bochy was both the first foreign-born manager to reach the World Series and the first European-born manager to win the World Series.

On February 18,2019, Bruce Bochy announced that the upcoming 2019 season would be his last, thus ending the tenure of the longest-serving active manager in Major League Baseball.

Bruce Bochy is the only manager in Major League history to win at least 900 games with two different teams.

On 9 December 2019, Bruce Bochy was named Manager of the France national baseball team.

Bruce Bochy is one of just seven Major Leaguers to be born in France, where his father, Sgt.

Bruce Bochy graduated from Melbourne High School, where he was a baseball teammate of Darrell Hammond of Saturday Night Live fame.

Bruce Bochy was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 8th round of the 1975 amateur draft but did not sign.

Bruce Bochy attended Brevard Community College for two years on a partial scholarship, winning a state championship in 1975, before committing to play baseball for Eddie Stanky at South Alabama, but he decided to turn pro when he was drafted in the first round by the Houston Astros in the 1975 Supplemental Draft.

Bruce Bochy was traded to the Mets on February 11,1981, for two minor leaguers.

In 1988, Bruce Bochy spent his final season playing in Triple-A Las Vegas where he served as a player-coach, batting.

Bruce Bochy was the backup to Terry Kennedy when the Padres won their first NL pennant in 1984, and he played in one game in the 1984 World Series, which the Padres lost in five games to the Detroit Tigers.

On July 1,1985, Bruce Bochy hit a tenth-inning walk-off home run off Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros, the only walk-off home run allowed in Ryan's career.

Bruce Bochy was behind the plate on September 11,1985, when Pete Rose, now with the Cincinnati Reds, collected his record-breaking 4,192nd major league hit off Padres pitcher Eric Show.

Bruce Bochy started the 1989 season assisting the Class-A Riverside Red Wave before leaving to manage the Short-Season Class-A Spokane Indians, leading them to their third consecutive championship.

In 1992, Bruce Bochy was promoted to manager of the Double-A Wichita Wranglers, leading them to the Texas League title that year.

In 2005 and 2006, Bruce Bochy led the Padres to consecutive NL West titles for the first time in franchise history, but they lost to the St Louis Cardinals in the Division Series each year.

Bruce Bochy left the Padres for the Giants after the 2006 season.

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Bruce Bochy has the most games managed in Padres history and with that, the most wins and losses.

Bruce Bochy agreed to a three-year contract to replace Felipe Alou and become the Giants' new manager on October 27,2006.

Bruce Bochy became the 21st manager with 1,500 wins on July 23,2013.

In 2014, Bruce Bochy became the 19th manager to reach 1,600 wins on August 27, and became the all-time NL Western Division leader in managerial wins, passing Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda for that distinction, since the installment of division play in 1969.

Bruce Bochy became the tenth manager in MLB history to win three championships, with the previous nine all inducted into the Hall of Fame.

On June 10,2015, Bruce Bochy recorded his 700th win as Giants manager, making him the fourth in history to win at least 700 games for two different teams, joining Sparky Anderson, Tony La Russa, and Jim Leyland.

On June 30, Bruce Bochy became the first manager since 1976 to intentionally forfeit the designated hitter, allowing Madison Bumgarner to bat for himself against the Oakland Athletics.

On July 29,2018, Bruce Bochy recorded his 1,906th career victory as manager, surpassing Casey Stengel into 11th place on MLB's career wins list.

On February 18,2019, Bruce Bochy announced he would retire following the conclusion of the 2019 season.

Bruce Bochy became the 25th manager to win 1,000 games with one team and he joins John McGraw as the only two managers in Giants franchise history to reach the milestone and the first in San Francisco.

Bruce Bochy's older brother Joe was a one-time catcher in the Minnesota Twins system, and later worked as a professional scout for the Padres and Giants.

Bruce Bochy met his wife, Kim Seib, while at Brevard Community College in 1975 and they married in 1978.

Greg Bruce Bochy spent several seasons playing minor league baseball in the San Diego Padres system.

On September 13,2014, Bruce Bochy became the first manager to give the ball to his son coming out of the bullpen.

Bruce Bochy is known for having one of the largest cap sizes in Major League Baseball.

On February 19,2015, Bruce Bochy underwent angioplasty to have two stents inserted in a blood vessel that was 90 percent blocked.

In May 2011, Bochy won the Ronald L Jensen Award for Lifetime Achievement, which he accepted at Positive Coaching Alliance's National Youth Sports Awards.

Bruce Bochy has rated Johnny Bench as the first choice on "His Top Five Catchers, All-Time" list, with the following in descending order: Carlton Fisk, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, and Ivan Rodriguez.