A great weight has been lifted as the Giants’ gave Bruce Bochy the 2,000th win of his career. It’s just now starting to sink in that next season, Bruce Bochy won’t be in the Giants’ dugout nor anyone else’s. For the first time since I’ve been old enough to even know what a manager is, a baseball season will be played without Bruce Bochy, and I’m suddenly unprepared for that.
As soon as he’s eligible, Bruce Bochy will enter the Hall of Fame. He captained the Giants through their most prosperous decade (bookended by some less prosperous years).