Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joined the K&C Masterpiece for the first time in 2025 to talk about the team’s 3-2 start to the season, what he saw during Kumar Rocker’s rough start against the Reds last night, how Adolis Garcia has gotten off to a hot start at the plate and more!
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00:00Coach, I was, I was very interested to see how Adolis would step to the plate because
00:20I know he kind of worked on shortening the swing a little bit and then he went kind of
00:24back to what he typically does and then he gets up there and now he's, he's just crushing
00:30again and that's awesome to see and then, you know, I love when he points over at you
00:33guys in the dugout after he hits a bomb too.
00:36Is there, what is the, the thing that kind of worked for him?
00:39Was it just kind of getting away from what he did and then find, refining himself?
00:42What do you see in there?
00:44Yeah, I think more than anything, combining, you know, his, his adjustment that he made
00:50this winter, shorten up the swing, kind of helped his ability, not only lay off the
00:56high pitch, but, you know, to handle that upper rail fastball by being a little quicker
01:02to it, cut back to strikeouts, maybe cut back some chasing, yeah, he probably overdid it
01:10a little bit and took away from what we want him to do and that's some slugging and so
01:15anyway, he made the adjustment, I thought, you know, when he got a little bit of time
01:23off there in spring training, you know, I think he looked at some things and, and made
01:28that adjustment and, and so now he's got them both working and now we got the player that
01:33we saw in 2023, a guy that's under control, that's good balance up there and he's laying
01:39off pitches, but yeah, you know, he's looking to do damage on them.
01:44When he first started spring training, he was in a contact mode and that's not the Garcia
01:48that we wanted or want, but, you know, to his credit though, he, he did make that adjustment,
01:56so I think the first adjustment helped the second.