{"id":343174,"date":"2026-06-02T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343174\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:33:28","slug":"sf-giants-name-oakland-native-gary-pettis-as-new-third-base-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343174\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants name Oakland native Gary Pettis as new third base coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Less than a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/sf-giants-re-assign-borg-name-wotus-as-interim-third-base-coach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">removing Hector Borg<\/a> as the team\u2019s third base coach, the Giants announced on Tuesday afternoon that longtime coach, former player and Oakland native Gary Pettis will take over the position.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis will join the team in Milwaukee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Wotus, who coached 24 seasons with San Francisco before becoming a special assistant to baseball operations, has served as the team\u2019s interim third base coach since last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis, 68, was born in Oakland and attended both Castlemont High School and Laney College. The former outfielder played 11 seasons in the majors from 1982-1992, winning five Gold Glove Awards and accumulating 354 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Pettis has 27 years of coaching experience, 22 of which have been in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis\u2019 most recent position was with the Houston Astros as the team\u2019s third base coach from 2015-24, working under Dusty Baker for four of those seasons (2020-2023).<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Houston, Pettis worked as a base coach for the Texas Rangers for all of Ron Washington\u2019s managerial tenure from 2007-2014, spending six seasons as first base coach (2007-2012) and two seasons as third base coach (2013-2014).<\/p>\n<p>Along with his time with the Astros and Rangers, Pettis was the first base coach for the Chicago White Sox (2001-2002) and New York Mets (2003-2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Less than a week after removing Hector Borg as the team\u2019s third base coach, the Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,1334,143,145,144,4820,127],"class_list":["post-343174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-mlb","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}