Bruce Bochy out as Rangers manager after 3-year stint and the team’s only World Series title

By STEPHEN HAWKINS ARLINGTON Texas Bruce Bochy will not return as manager of the Texas Rangers after a three-year stint that began with the franchise s first World Series championship in before missing the playoffs in both seasons since then The Rangers released Monday night that the crew and Bochy mutually agreed to end his managerial tenure Bochy has been offered a front office role to remain with Texas in an advisory quota The move came a day after the Ranger finished - That was the first finish ever for the franchise that began as the Washington Senators in before moving to Texas in and a first for Bochy in seasons overall managing San Diego San Francisco and Texas Bochy was at the end of the three-year contract he got when Chris Young one of his former pitchers hired him after the Rangers sixth consecutive losing season Bochy went - in Texas Bruce Bochy is one of the greatest managers in baseball history and he will forever hold a place in the hearts of Ranger fans after bringing home the first World Series title in franchise history in Young noted Boch brought class and respect to our club in his return to the dugout and we will invariably take pride in being part of his Hall of Fame career We are grateful for everything he has given to the organization over the past insufficient seasons and hopeful he can continue to impact the Rangers for several years to come After turning this season as baseball s winningest evolving manager Bochy s wins rank sixth among all managers all five ahead of him are in the Hall of Fame No managers since Casey Stengel won his seventh with the New York Yankees in have more World Series titles than Bochy s four including three in San Francisco Bochy had been out of managing for three seasons when hired by Texas He had stepped away from the Giants at the end of after seasons and three championships from - That followed seasons and a National League pennant with the Padres San Francisco also - this season fired second-year manager Bob Melvin on Monday after the Giants missed the playoffs for the fourth year in a row The Giants president of baseball operations is Buster Posey the National League MVP and seven-time All-Star catcher who played all but the last of his MLB seasons with Bochy as his manager Among the anticipated replacements for Bochy in Texas is former Miami Marlins manager Skip Schumaker who joined the Rangers last November as a senior adviser for baseball operations The only manager older than Bochy this season was -year-old Ron Washington but he didn t manage a match for the Los Angeles Angels after June because of quadruple sidestep heart surgery