SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–Before the three parades down Market Street, before he owned a selection of shiny rings and before the Hall of Fame was even a consideration, Bruce Bochy was the manager of the San Diego Padres.
And before the Giants hired Bochy in the fall of 2006, he was still under contract with his former club.
“I was in Arizona, watching our Fall League team and I had to call Kevin Towers, god rest his soul, over something,” Brian Sabean said Monday. “Over what I don’t remember.”
An hour after Bochy, 63, announced the 2019 season would be his 25th and last as a major league manager, Sabean sat in an office in Scottsdale Stadium detailing how Bochy landed in San Francisco.