Bruce Bochy Getting Set to Manage Career Game No. 4,000

SAN FRANCISCO -- On his first day at Oracle Park earlier this month, Scooter Gennett met with the media and talked about how cool it is for him that he'll be around for Bruce Bochy's 2,000th win. That's been a talking point for players since Bochy announced this spring that 2019 will be his final big league season, although another milestone came and went earlier this month without any fanfare.

Bochy also reached 2,000 losses as a big league manager, and if you add them up, you naturally get to a much bigger and more imposing number. This Sunday in Oakland, Bochy will manage career game No. 4,000 in the big leagues. He'll become the eighth man in MLB history to reach 4,000, and by the end of the year he should pass Sparky Anderson and finish his career seventh all-time with 4,033 games managed. 

It's a huge number, one that had Bochy shaking his head recently when he realized it was coming up. While he won't finish with a .500 record as a manager, he still can do so with the Giants. They're currently four games above .500 in his 2,072 games as manager.

Thanks to the fine folks at Baseball-Reference, we have a few more astounding numbers from Bochy's career. He has been in the dugout as his pitchers have faced 153,193 opposing hitters, has called for 1,133 intentional walks, and has relayed the sacrifice bunt sign for 512 attempts that were put down by position players. Bochy has used over 6,000 pinch hitters and this season is calling on 1.76 per game, the second-highest rate of his 25-year career. 

In a sign of how the game has changed, Bochy is using 4.4 pitchers per game this season. He used just 3.3 in 1995, his first season leading the Padres, and never got above 4.0 until he came to San Francisco. That's an adjustment he has made over time, and he's had plenty of opportunities -- 4,000 of them after tomorrow's game -- to hone his preferences. 

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