{"id":343204,"date":"2026-06-02T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:58:08","slug":"sf-giants-name-gary-pettis-new-third-base-coach-as-hector-borg-reassigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343204\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants name Gary Pettis new third base coach as Hector Borg reassigned"},"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 their 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>Pettis, 68, was born in Oakland and attended 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, including 22 years 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 to 2024, working under Dusty Baker for four of those seasons (2020-2023). Baker rejoined the Giants before last season as a special adviser.<\/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<p>The Giants said Friday that Borg would be reassigned from third base to their player development staff after several baserunning issues in the first two months of rookie manager Tony Vitello\u2019s tenure.<\/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 Borg\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Less than a week after removing Hector Borg as their third base coach, the Giants announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,2135,184,7,332,23726,402,181,1334,143,145,144,395,101,396,4820,127],"class_list":["post-343204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-baseball","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-giants-hq","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-county","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343204","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=343204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}