Buster Posey: Giants would welcome Bruce Bochy, just not as manager

San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey said his former skipper Bruce Bochy is welcome to slide into a position in the organization -- just not the vacant managerial job.

"The door's always open here for some sort of role," Posey said on Wednesday. "I don't see us going that route with Boch."

Posey spoke two days after the Giants fired Bob Melvin after two seasons as the club's manager. Melvin posted an 81-81 record in 2025, which marked a one-win improvement from 2024.

The Giants finished third in the National League West in 2025, 12 games behind the division-winning Los Angeles Dodgers and nine back of the playoff-bound San Diego Padres. They were two games out of the NL's final wild-card spot.

"We had a pretty consistent stretch of not playing good baseball," Posey said. "There's a lot of good things in place, but ultimately we did not achieve our goal this year."

Less than two years after leading the Texas Rangers to a World Series championship, Bochy exited his job as manager in a mutual decision on Monday.

Bochy, 70, is the sixth-winningest manager in major league history with a 2,252-2,266 record over 28 years. He spent three years as the Rangers' manager, compiling a 249-237 regular-season record and a lone postseason appearance in 2023 that led to a World Series crown.

Bochy managed the Padres from 1995-2006, leading San Diego to the 1998 World Series. He was selected NL Manager of the Year in 1996.

Bochy then guided the Giants from 2007-19, and he took San Francisco to World Series championships in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

He is one of just six managers to have earned four World Series rings as a manager, and the other five are all in the Hall of Fame. Casey Stengel and Joe McCarthy each won seven titles, Connie Mack won five, and Joe Torre and Walter Alston are alongside Bochy with four apiece.

--Field Level Media