It’s been a shade over 36 hours now since his purportedly mutual separation from the Texas Rangers and Bruce Bochy has not yet been hired as the new/old manager of the San Francisco Giants. Somewhere beneath the surface of the earth, conspiracy geeks are getting nervous and considering turning their attention back to the asteroid flight maps.
That was how this was supposed to fit, right? The Giants had just cardboard-boxed Bob Melvin 12 hours earlier, Bochy had been deflecting cagily about his future in Texas, and San Francisco baseball ops president Buster Posey did his best work under Bochy’s managerial care a decade ago. Half a day later, Bochy and another of his former charges, Rangers POBO Chris Young, decide that Bochy was welcome to stay with the team provided he didn’t try to pull a uniform shirt over his massive skull any longer. It’s hard to tell whether this was a firing too or just a “come sit with me upstairs” call. We know which way we’re leaning.
