Bruce Bochy, who guided the Texas Rangers to their only World Series championship, will not return as manager in 2026, the team announced Monday.
Bochy, baseball’s winningest active manager who turned 70 this season, guided the injury plagued Rangers to an 81-81 record that saw the franchise miss the postseason for the second year in a row.
The Rangers had one of the worst home OPS figures but still went 48-33 because their pitching was so good at Globe Life. They had a middle-of-the-pack road offense but were just 33-48 on the road.
Texas looked out of it in early July but then won 11 of 13. A 2-10 stretch in August left the Rangers out of it again, especially as injuries piled up, but then they went 9-1 fielding a team of Triple-A call-ups. They were two games out of the wild card on Sept. 13, but lost eight in a row to fall out of contention.
Bochy, along with general manager Chris Young, helped turn around the Rangers’ fortunes upon signing a three-year deal after the 2022 season. After a three-year hiatus from managing, Bochy guided the Rangers, who were coming off six consecutive losing season, to the World Series title in 2023.
He had stepped away from the San Francisco Giants in 2019 after 13 seasons and three World Series titles, which followed 12 seasons and a National League pennant with the San Diego Padres.
Bochy has a career record of 2,252-2,266 over his 28 seasons, with those wins ranking sixth among all managers — the five ahead of him are all in the Hall of Fame. No managers in the past 60 years have more than Bochy’s four World Series titles, and the only ones all-time with more are Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel and Connie Mack.
The only current MLB manager older than Bochy is 73-year-old Ron Washington with the Los Angeles Angels, though he hasn’t managed a game for the Angels since June 19 before he had quadruple bypass heart surgery.
ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle and The Associated Press contributed to this report.