Here’s something about October and November baseball as ageless and as timeless as, well, Bruce Bochy:

We come away from the World Series, every single time, with new legends of the fall. This time it was an old manager named Bochy and his players: Corey Seager, Adolis García, Marcus Semien, Evan Carter, Nathan Eovaldi, Jordan Montgomery, José Leclerc. And throw a brilliant baseball executive named Chris Young into the mix, too. Put Young on one of the lead floats at the parade.

Whenever there is another Rangers team with a chance to win, Texas fans will talk about their 2023 team, the one that lost the American League West on the last day of the regular season and then proceeded to do the following: Beat a 99-win Rays team, beat a 101-win Orioles team, knock off the defending champion Astros, then finally finish things off by defeating the D-backs in five games, having won 11 straight postseason games on the road.

“It was our time,” Young said late Wednesday night after the Rangers had won Game 5, 5-0.

There is still no other month, in any other sport, like this one in baseball. Everybody always starts with a blank canvas. Now Seager, the new “Mr. October,” has become the first position player since the original “Mr. October,” Reggie Jackson, to win World Series MVP with two different teams. We have Eovaldi proving he is one of the best big-game pitchers of his generation all the way through the six gritty scoreless innings he threw to start Game 5.

There are other more celebrated starters in baseball, and certainly ones higher paid than Eovaldi, who comes from Nolan Ryan’s old high school in Alvin, Texas. But now in his postseason career, Eovaldi’s teams are 11-1 in games that he has started. He comes away from this postseason with five wins. He was the kind of pitching star in this postseason that García had been offensively before he had a left oblique strain; the kind of star that Seager always has been when the money is on the table.

Seager’s trophy case now includes the two World Series MVP awards and the 2020 National League Championship Series MVP. He has 19 career postseason homers, putting him 10 shy of Manny Ramirez’s all-time record of 29. But the way Seager shows up when the games matter most, no matter where he is playing, who would bet against him passing Manny, maybe in the next couple of years? The Rangers aren’t going anywhere, and neither is Seager, still not yet 30.

Among shortstops, only Derek Jeter, with 20 postseason homers, has more than Seager. One of the things Young said he wanted to do as he was building a championship team was to be strong up the middle. So he signed Seager as a free agent and then signed Semien and, just like that, the Rangers were as strong up the middle as anybody in the sport. Young spent the money on the two of them, but Seager and Semien are the ones who placed huge bets on the man who became the architect of the first World Series champion in the franchise’s history.

Semien, the Iron Man who suited up all 179 games, had not been hitting the way he normally does until Game 4 against the D-backs. That’s when he hit a two-run triple and a three-run homer and followed all that up with the two-run shot in Game 5 in a ninth inning that felt like the beginning of the Rangers’ first World Series parade. You know what Semien really did in those last two games? Had himself a month, is what he did.

And, of course, Seager, the guy to Semien’s right in the Texas infield, had two more hits in the last game of this team’s unforgettable season.

“This is the vision,” Seager said after Game 5.

So Seager won his second World Series. Bochy, now one of a handful of managers to win as many as four World Series, has won again. So has likely Hall of Famer Max Scherzer. Montgomery, who probably thought he would win a World Series when he was with the Yankees, turned out to be as much of an October horse as Eovaldi. And you know García was trying to take the "Mr. October" belt until he had to miss the last two games.

Don’t tell Rangers fans not to remember this team the way Cubs fans remember their 2016 team, or the way Red Sox fans remember the ’04 Sox. Those teams had their own storied names. Now Rangers fans have Bochy and Seager and Semien, Eovaldi and Montgomery, and all the no-longer-unsung heroes of Bochy’s bullpen.

There are always new legends of the fall in baseball. Here comes the Class of ’23 from Arlington. They just had themselves a month. One that will only last forever.