Bochy, winningest active manager, out in Texas

Bruce Bochy, who guided the Texas Rangers to their lone World Series championship, volition not instrumentality arsenic manager successful 2026, the squad announced Monday.

Bochy, baseball's winningest progressive manager who turned 70 this season, guided the wounded plagued Rangers to an 81-81 grounds that saw the franchise miss the postseason for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

The Rangers had 1 of the worst location OPS figures but inactive went 48-33 due to the fact that their pitching was truthful bully astatine Globe Life. They had a middle-of-the-pack roadworthy discourtesy but were conscionable 33-48 connected the road.

Texas looked retired of it successful aboriginal July but past won 11 of 13. A 2-10 agelong successful August near the Rangers retired of it again, particularly arsenic injuries piled up, but past they went 9-1 fielding a squad of Triple-A call-ups. They were 2 games retired of the chaotic paper connected Sept. 13, but mislaid 8 successful a enactment to autumn retired of contention.

Bochy, on with wide manager Chris Young, helped crook astir the Rangers' fortunes upon signing a three-year woody aft the 2022 season. After a three-year hiatus from managing, Bochy guided the Rangers, who were coming disconnected six consecutive losing season, to the World Series rubric successful 2023.

He had 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 San Diego Padres.

Bochy has a vocation grounds of 2,252-2,266 implicit his 28 seasons, with those wins ranking 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, and the lone ones all-time with much are Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel and Connie Mack.

The lone existent MLB manager older than Bochy is 73-year-old Ron Washington with the Los Angeles Angels, though helium hasn't managed a crippled for the Angels since June 19 earlier helium had quadruple bypass bosom surgery.

ESPN's Bradford Doolittle and The Associated Press contributed to this report.