Bochy's Rangers future unclear as season ends

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Bruce Bochy is successful the last games of his three-year declaration with the Texas Rangers, a span that began with the franchise's lone World Series title, but baseball's winningest progressive manager isn't acceptable to sermon if helium volition beryllium backmost adjacent season.

"Season's not over. It's thing we'll speech astir erstwhile the season's over," Bochy said earlier Thursday's location finale against Minnesota. "So I'm going to instrumentality with that close present and spot if we tin triumph a mates of games here."

Both Bochy, who turned 70 this season, and Chris Young, the team's president of shot operations, said they volition speech astir adjacent play aft this 1 is done. The Rangers, who volition miss the playoffs for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment since that title successful 2023, decorativeness with 3 games astatine Cleveland this weekend.

"The 2 of america volition beryllium down and speech astir wherever things are, what happened this year, wherever we're going," Young said. "There's things that I'm definite he's going to privation to cognize astir the aboriginal of the squad and we'll speech astir it, similar we did 3 years ago, and fig it out."

Young, who pitched a play for Bochy successful San Diego, was the Rangers wide manager erstwhile helium hired Bochy arsenic manager aft the 2022 season. They were coming disconnected their sixth consecutive losing season, the longest streak successful the half-century since the franchise moved to Texas successful 1972.

At that time, Bochy had been retired of managing for 3 seasons. He stepped distant from the San Francisco Giants successful 2019 aft 13 seasons and 3 World Series titles, which followed 12 seasons and a National League pennant with the Padres.

"Just emotion him. He's great. I emotion moving with him. He's been wonderful," Young said. "He came present to triumph a World Series. He's helped america execute that. And, you know, we'll fig retired what the aboriginal holds."

Young didn't person a timeline connected however rapidly a determination could beryllium made aft the play ends this weekend.

The Rangers were eliminated from playoff contention Tuesday nighttime erstwhile they mislaid their eighth consecutive game. They won Wednesday nighttime and went into the location finale inactive capable to decorativeness with a winning grounds if they won 2 of their past 4 games.

Bochy went into Thursday's crippled with 2,251 wins, sixth among each managers - the 5 up of him are each successful the Hall of Fame. No managers successful the past 60 years person much than Bochy's 4 World Series titles - helium won 3 with San Francisco - the lone ones all-time with much are Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel and Connie Mack.

"Oh, I've truly had a large time, and it's arsenic overmuch amusive arsenic I've had successful the game," Bochy said of his 3 seasons backmost successful the dugout. "I said this erstwhile I came back, you person a deeper appreciation erstwhile you're out, particularly for 3 years and you recognize what you have, however blessed you are to beryllium doing what you're doing. It's been a batch of amusive and I inactive emotion it, and bask it."