Bruce Bochy

Bruce Bochy
manager | born: 04.16.55


	Bruce Bochy is signed through the 2007 season.

2005 salary: $1.3 million
Contract status: Bochy agreed to a two-year contract extension on June 23, 2005. The extension runs through the 2007 season.
Career stats: baseball-reference.com
Career biographies: BaseballLibrary.com
Teaching career: Padres third base coach (1993-94), Padres manager (1995-present).

Awards and honors: NL Manager of the Year (1996). ... The Sporting News NL Manager of the Year (1996, 1998).

THE NUMBERS
year team         g   w   l   pct  pl  ew  +/-  pt
1995 Padres     144  70  74  .486  3W  64   +6   0
1996 Padres     162  91  71  .562  1W  76  +15   3
1997 Padres     162  76  86  .469  4W  84   -8   0
1998 Padres     162  98  64  .604  1W  80  +18   4
1999 Padres     162  74  88  .457  4W  90  -16   0
2000 Padres     162  76  86  .469  5W  79   -3   0
2001 Padres     162  79  83  .488  4W  80   +1   0
2002 Padres     162  66  96  .407  5W  79  -13   0
2003 Padres     162  64  98  .395  5W  73   -9   0
2004 Padres     162  87  75  .537  3W  70  +17   1
2005 Padres     162                    80         
  10 seasons   1602 781 821  .482  --  --   +8   8

Notes: Three of these managerial statistics — all introduced in The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers — may need some explaining. Expected wins (ew) are, of course, the number of games a team is expected to win in that season. They are calculated by adding:
1) 50 percent of the team’s wins from the previous season,
2) 25 percent of the wins from a .500 season — 20.25 wins (based on the premise that all teams have a pronounced tendency to drift toward .500),
3) 12.5 percent of the team’s wins from two seasons ago and
4) 12.5 percent of the team’s wins from three seasons ago.

How well the manager fared against expected wins is the plus/minus number. For example, Bochy was expected to win 80 games in 1998. He exceeded that number by 18 wins or +18.

Manager points (pt) recognizes six types of accomplishment in a season:
1) Posting a winning record — 1 pts
2) Winning the division — 2 pts
3) Winning the pennant — 3 pts
4) Winning the World Series — 4 pts
5) Finishing 20 games over .500 — 1 pt
6) Winning 100 games — 1 pt

In the show: Astros (1978-80), Mets (1982), Padres (1983-87).
Career stats: cnnsi.com | baseball-reference.com

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