We’ve buried MLB Manager Bruce Bochy here many times, for being both overrated and an enabler of PED use in his players. The dullards may ask, how can he be overrated and a cheater? Well, easily, of course, and the 2024 season once again shows why this is true: the pattern of PED enablement is there dating back to the mid-1990s, and Bochy proved once again that he has no idea how to get to October consistently, anyway.

And as we know, cheaters don’t always win when they cheat; they just make themselves a little better than they should be. Sometimes that is enough to win the World Series; most times, it is not. For Bochy, he’s actually been bad at cheating, generally speaking, but when he’s been good enough at it to make the postseason, that’s where the payoff comes—but his record of getting to the postseason itself is terrible.

To wit: the Texas Rangers won the World Series somehow last year, and Bochy was once again hailed as a genius. But then, as is his pattern, this “genius” couldn’t get his team to finish over .500 the following year, let alone get back to October. The last time Bochy managed back-to-back postseason qualifiers was in 2005-2006 when his San Diego teams won just 170 games total in a very weak NL West Division at the time.

In fact, in his last 15 seasons as a manager (San Francisco, 2007-2019; Texas, 2023-2024), he’s managed to reach the postseason just five times. Yes, his cheating teams have won the World Series four of those five times, but that has to be considered a fluke when the overwhelming data from his entire managerial career cements the fact he is a sub-.500 manager: his .498 winning percentage includes two losing stops and Texas.

With the Rangers and their high payrolls, he is just 168-156 despite being fourth in payroll last year ($251M) and eighth in payroll this year ($226M). When you look at teams like Atlanta and Los Angeles (NL), franchises that have multiyear streaks of postseason participation going right now, it’s clear that Bochy is kind of a joke: the drunk assclown who falls out of a tree and lands on his feet in October only, though.

You know, April through September don’t matter as much, evidently?

In 27 years as a manager, he’s made it to October just nine times—with five World Series appearances, which is an incredibly lucky rate for a manager who has 2,185 losses in his career and a .498 winning percentage. How does Bochy go from a sub-.500 manager in the regular season to a .606 manager in October? Good question, especially since he was just a .333 manager in the playoffs with the Padres.

Despite the mythos created by the media, coaches and players cannot just “turn it on” when they get to the playoffs. It really doesn’t work that way; things like momentum and talent surely are important, but there is no light switch to flick on suddenly to “win” … If that was the case, Bochy would flip it on more often in the regular season to just get to the postseason. And he cannot do that, despite the history of PED enablement.

Let’s toss in the fact that Bochy posted a minus-6 PPP in 2023 with Texas, meaning the team made the postseason in spite of him. His plus-3 PPP effort this year with the Rangers was better, but the team still finished with just 78 victories as the defending champions. And again, over 27 seasons and 4,356 regular-season games, he has lost more than he has won—and the small sample sizes of October are a fluke.

Any mathematician will tell you this when it comes to statistical analysis: which sample size means more? A 4,356-game sample or a 94-game sample? Indeed. Good managers get their teams to the postseason every year, and no team wins it every year even when they get there. But they have more chances, for sure: to pretend one guy has a magic wand in October that he doesn’t know how to use from April to September?

Purely asinine and idiotic—even with the demonstrable pattern of PED enablement. In fact, in 14 of his 27 seasons, his teams have finished under .500 for the regular season. So more than half the time, he’s been leading losers. That’s fits right in with the .498 winning percentage, overall, showing he’s been just below average for his whole career—until October, if and when he gets there, and the PED stamina kicks in.