Four weeks have passed since our last Wednesday Wizengamot statement of judgment, and we come back today with a repetitious revisiting of MLB Manager Bruce Bochy and his (probable) ongoing PED enablement, which dates back to the 1990s with the San Diego Padres. He’s really a mediocre manager, which has been masked by his players exceeding sabermetric projections in very suspicious circumstances.

The latest example of this reared its ugly head again yesterday with the news that Texas Rangers veteran Nathan Eovaldi will miss the rest of the season due to injury. Right now, his team is sitting right at .500 in the AL West Division, with a 25-percent chance to make the postseason. Eovaldi, with his 3.89 career ERA, was having the best season of his life at age 35, somehow, and it’s easy to pinpoint why when looking closely.

His 3.14 ERA with the Rangers over the last three years is the only stop in his career where he has posted a sub-4.00 ERA in extensive play. He pitched previously for the Los Angeles Dodgers (2011-2012), the New York Yankees (2015-2016), the Tampa Bay Rays (2018), and the Boston Red Sox (2018-2022)—teams all known for getting the most out of their players, even though we know the Boston organization cheated.

So, how has Eovaldi been able to be so successful, especially this year, with a 1.73 ERA and a 0.854 WHIP in his mid-30s? Mind you, this is a pitcher, too, who has never thrown 200 innings in a season, in a 15-year career. He’s always been injury prone, which in itself is a tell-tale sign of PED use. But this year, specifically, has been ridiculous. We give you one guess: the manager in the dugout with the history of PED enablement.

Search this site for all the analysis of Bochy’s sketchy history, and then apply the established and factual pattern to Eovaldi: after the Red Sox gave him a $68M deal for four seasons before the 2019 season (probably as a reward for helping them win the 2018 World Series with his surprising second-half turnaround after the Rays dumped him on Boston), they didn’t re-sign him due to age and a 4.05 ERA.

He was going to be 33 in 2023, and the Red Sox just threw away all that money on him to get mediocrity in return. In stepped the Rangers with the newly hired Bochy and a $32M deal for two seasons. Why would the Texas front office do that unless there were “expectations”? Well, Eovaldi delivered somehow, in a hitter’s park no less, with 24 victories and mid-3.00s ERA for 2023 and 2024, so he got more money from the club.

The Rangers are paying him $22M this year, and they also bought out his option for 2026 by upping the deal to two more years (2026-2027) for a combined $53M! He’s in his age-35 season right now, so why would the team be stupid enough to give an old man that kind of money?! Only one reason makes any sense whatsoever. This is a guy, mind you, was making just $2M with Tampa Bay in 2018 at age 28 with low results.

It’s amazing how a mediocre talent—with that career 3.89 ERA, no less—can make so much money in this sport at his fading age. Since missing the 2017 in its entirey due to injury, he’s come back to make an obscene amount of money pitching for the cheating Red Sox and now the cheating Rangers. His rotator cuff is the problem now, even for a guy who has never pitching 200 innings in a single season. Connect the dots.

And again, it all comes back to Bochy: it started with Ken Caminiti and Steve Finley in San Diego, continued with Barry Bonds and others in San Francisco, and now it’s out in the open again in Texas—a state that has no regard whatsoever for ethics and morals, whether in politics or sport. No one wanted Eovaldi when he was in his “prime” because he was unreliable and mediocre; now he’s a very, very rich man.