In an interview with 105.3 The Fan, Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy announced his return for the 2024 campaign. Bochy made a joke about the likelihood that general manager Chris Young would reconsider. This will be Bochy’s fourth World Series championship in his career, having led the Rangers to their first one last week. Prior to the 2023 season, he inked a three-year deal with the Rangers. Along with Brandon Hyde of the Baltimore Orioles and Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays, Bochy was also named a finalist for the AL Manager of the Year award.

Of all 30 MLB clubs, the Rangers saw the biggest improvement in their regular-season winning percentage under Bochy’s direction. They ended Texas’s six-year losing streak in 2023 after going from winning 68 games in 2022 to 90 wins in 2023. Bochy, who started in 1995 with the San Diego Padres, is 68 years old and has managed in Major League Baseball for 26 years. He presently sits in 10th place for lifetime wins with 2,093 victories.

Bochy might finish sixth in all-time wins by the end of the following season since four managers—Joe McCarthy (2,125), Bucky Harris (2,158), Dusty Baker (2,183), and Sparky Anderson (2,194)—are all within 101 victories of him. Bochy also becomes one of only a few managers to have won four World Series: McCarthy, Casey Stengel, and Connie Mack have all won seven, and Mack has five.