{"id":578510,"date":"2026-02-18T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:35:21","slug":"bruce-bochys-endorsement-surreal-to-giants-tyler-mahle-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578510\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Bochy\u2019s endorsement \u2018surreal\u2019 to Giants\u2019 Tyler Mahle \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0a future Baseball Hall of Fame manager such as\u00a0Bruce Bochy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/tyler-mahle-contract-bruce-bochy\/1904929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gives a player his endorsement<\/a>, it should not be taken lightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President of baseball operations Buster Posey took his former manager\u2019s\u00a0word,\u00a0and the Giants signed\u00a0pitcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mahlety01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tyler Mahle<\/a>\u00a0to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/tyler-mahle-contract-free-agency\/1903612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">one-year, $10 million contract<\/a> this offseason in MLB free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mahle, who played for Bochy\u2019s Texas Rangers in the\u00a0previous\u00a0two seasons,\u00a0had high praise for the four-time World Series champion manager in an interview with NBC Sports Bay Area&#8217;s Alex Pavlovic in Scottsdale, Arizona, for &#8220;Giants Talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great,\u201d Mahle said of\u00a0playing for\u00a0Bochy.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s obviously a legend of the game; not just in San Francisco, a legend in baseball.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mahle dealt with injuries over the last two seasons and only made 19 starts for the Rangers in that\u00a0time frame. But, in 2025, the starting pitcher\u00a0finished with a 6-4 record and an impressive 2.18 ERA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bochy, a former catcher, is known for getting the best out of his pitching staff. But\u00a0a career-best ERA in a season in which Mahle battled\u00a0a rotator cuff strain\u00a0is no fluke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, playing for a guy like that, it gives you a little bit more confidence and I\u00a0think\u00a0makes you a little bit better,&#8221; Mahle told Pavlovic.\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s\u00a0surreal to say that\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0played for a guy like that and for him to say kind words about me,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0pretty surreal\u00a0to me too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super grateful that I got to be around him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mahle now, with\u00a0Bochy\u2019s blessing,\u00a0has a chance to build on a successful 2025 as a member of the Giants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He, along with fellow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/adrian-houser-free-agent-contract\/1900097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">free-agent signee Adrian Houser<\/a>, will help shore up San Francisco\u2019s starting rotation behind Logan Webb and Robbie Ray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giants-talk-a-san-francisco-giants-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When\u00a0a future Baseball Hall of Fame manager such as\u00a0Bruce Bochy\u00a0gives a player his endorsement, it should not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,3321,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-578510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bruce-bochy","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants","19":"tag-tyler-mahle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116089311541136886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}