Bruce Bochy on hiring Bret Boone, recalling Evan Carter, parting with Leody

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Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joined the K&C Masterpiece during the team's series in Boston to talk about what it's like playing at Fenway Park, why the club landed on Bret Boone to be their new hitting coach, what he wants to see from Evan Carter now that the outfielder is back in the major leagues, and more.

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00:00i'm curious since he has like kind of a a back issue that has to be managed how do you balance

00:21like managing the pain versus hey sometimes you're gonna have to play through a little bit of pain

00:26well first of all he's not in pain right now you see that's what's good to see is how healthy he is

00:34yeah i mean that's always a fine line uh between playing with pain and doing more damage uh you

00:42know some guys pain tolerance are different obviously uh like when you're talking about

00:47the area where it was bothering them yeah it's hard to play through that and then you're just

00:52going to compound the damage by running and swinging the bat swinging the bat is especially

00:57trying to hit major league pitch you're doing some serious rotating and uh so yeah you gotta be smart

01:03about it as far as him his workload i'm going to rely on my medical staff uh he's going to play these

01:08three and then uh ball goes well then he'll be off the first day in detroit looks like we're going to

01:14see scoobal so um anyway i'll pick and uh and choose uh certain days that he'll be off so you know we

01:22don't run them in the ground here

01:24you

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