SURPRISE, Ariz. — There has been a lot of change since Bruce Bochy last wheeled out of the Sky Harbor Airport tangle on his way to open spring training as a...
No more interminable waits for a rental car bus to putter along; now there’s a train! For another, when he exited the airport, he turned left and headed west, instead of right for Scottsdale.
“I’ve thought about this all winter,” Bochy said on a cold, wet Tuesday afternoon. “We are a much better club. This team feels it, and they are excited about it. I am, too. There is also the task ahead, which is no small matter. The Rangers finished 22 games out of second place in the AL West last year. Houston, also known as the defending world champion, is not any worse than it was a year ago. The same could be said for Seattle, which finished second. And the Angels only have the two best players on the planet.
He can no longer use a reliever for a one-batter matchup, which he did more often than any manager in baseball while with San Francisco. And extra-innings games are no longer about survival, but rather sudden death. MLB this week voted unanimously to makeMake no mistake: In these games where managerial decision-making was often the difference, Bochy was a master. According to baseball-reference, Bochy’s Giants swept the medal stand for most one-batter usage.
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