Bruce Bochy

Giants target Furcal, Renteria

Shortstops Rafael Furcal and Edgar Renteria are among the free agents the San Francisco Giants are targeting as possible replacements for 11-time Gold Glover Omar Vizquel. Across San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Athletics also...

Wakamatsu blazes a new trail

Mariners hire becomes first Asian-American manager Don Wakamatsu had 31 at-bats in 18 games with the Chicago White Sox in 1991. Wakamatsu also had only a cameo as a Major League player, as have so many Hall of Fame managers, in...

Giants Add Jeremy Affeldt to Bullpen

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jeremy Affeldt had considered looking for a job as a closer this offseason. Then San Francisco offered a contract the reliever couldn't pass up. Affeldt became the first of the 171 players who filed for free...

Wins most overrated stat? No way!

You have one game to win and one starter to choose. A respected baseball writer, someone I know and admire, wrote that Tim Lincecum’s NL Cy Young Award proved that voters have “entered the 21st century and realize that wins are...

Earth to NFL: time to toss the headsets

Don't blame Mike Martz or Mike Singletary for Goal Line Gate, also known as The Snafu at the Two. Blame it on the NFL's increasing dependence on electronic communications. The 49ers got Motorola'd. Had it not been for the...

Giants' Tim Lincecum makes OUR dreams come true

Tim Lincecum was so stunned by the Cy Young Award announcement that he didn't even dress up for his gala news conference Tuesday. He rolled in to face the nation's cameras wearing a T-shirt and a knit cap. Which is why we love...

NL Manager List

Updated: November 12, 2008, 2:13 PM ET (Selected by the Baseball Writer's Association of America) 2008 -- Lou Piniella, Chicago 2007 -- Bob Melvin, Arizona 2006 -- Joe Girardi, Florida 2005 -- Bobby Cox, Atlanta 2004 -- Bobby...

Olney: Dark days ahead for San Diego

Fourteen years ago, John Moores arrived in San Diego to restore the Padres, to restore respectability and hope for a competitive future to the franchise that had just pawned off Gary Sheffield, Fred McGriff, Tony Fernandez and...

Gonzalez snares NL Gold Glove

Whenever the San Francisco Giants prepared to face the Padres this year, manager Bruce Bochy and coaches warned Giants players about first baseman Adrian Gonzalez's lethal left arm. “He can throw across the diamond to third...

Hard work on defense is rewarded for Padres first baseman Gonzalez

Tom Krasovic Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Adrian Gonzalez was named the NL's top defensive first baseman. JOHN R. McCUTCHEN/Union-Tribune Whenever the San Francisco Giants prepared to face the Padres this year, manager Bruce...