{"id":293661,"date":"2025-11-19T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293661\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:59:50","slug":"giants-to-hire-justin-meccage-as-pitching-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293661\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants To Hire Justin Meccage As Pitching Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants are expected to add Justin Meccage as their pitching coach, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/mlb\/sources-giants-hiring-justin-meccage-as-new-pitching-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>. Meccage has spent the majority of his coaching tenure in the Pirates\u2019 organization. He was most recently a minor league coach in the Brewers\u2019 system.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief playing career, Meccage got his coaching start in the college ranks. After seven years spent between the University of Texas-Pan American and Arkansas State University from 2004 to 2010, Meccage headed to the pros. He became a minor league pitching coach for Pittsburgh in 2011. Meccage moved through multiple levels of the minors before taking over as minor league pitching coordinator in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Meccage got his first big-league gig in 2018 as assistant pitching coach for the Pirates. He transitioned to bullpen coach in 2020, a role he held through 2024. Meccage was a Triple-A pitching coach for Milwaukee this past season.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/giants-to-hire-tony-vitello-as-manager.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New manager<\/a> Tony Vitello\u2019s staff is slowly coming together. San Francisco <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/giants-to-hire-hunter-mense-as-hitting-coach.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">added<\/a> Hunter Mense as hitting coach last week. Meccage will replace pitching coach J.P. Martinez, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/braves-hire-tony-mansolino-former-orioles-manager-coach.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was hired<\/a> by Atlanta to be their bullpen coach. Martinez had been on the Giants\u2019 staff since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco ranked 10th in ERA last season. The staff will be headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/webblo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Logan Webb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rayro02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robbie Ray<\/a>, though the options beyond that tandem are uncertain. The bullpen lost closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dovalca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Camilo Doval<\/a> at the trade deadline, then saw replacement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodrira02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Randy Rodriguez<\/a> go down with an injury that led to Tommy John surgery. General manager Zack Minasian said the offseason plan <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/minasian-giants-will-prioritize-adding-pitching-depth.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will involve<\/a> adding pitching depth.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy Charles LeClaire, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants are expected to add Justin Meccage as their pitching coach, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. Meccage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,132578,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-293661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-justin-meccage","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}