{"id":344508,"date":"2026-06-03T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344508\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:05:27","slug":"sf-giants-name-gary-pettis-new-third-base-coach-as-hector-borg-reassigned-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344508\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants name Gary Pettis new third base coach as Hector Borg reassigned"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE \u2014 Less than a week after 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

Pettis will join the team in Milwaukee on Wednesday. He\u2019ll debut as San Francisco\u2019s third base coach when the Giants take on the Cubs in Chicago beginning on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really knows a good host of our other players and has interacted with them one way or another,\u201d said manager Tony Vitello, \u201cbut ultimately, the key piece there is it\u2019s about impossible to argue with his reputation in baseball, and in particular, his experience at third base.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

In total, Pettis has 27 years of coaching experience, including 22 years in the majors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really kind of envision it being a good thing because we\u2019re looking for anything that\u2019s kind of a fresh start or a new thing to begin with,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cJust a good point in the season to take a temperature and maybe allow the position guys to tell him where are we, what do we want to be, what we need to do better, what we have not done well \u2014 and you could apply that to the whole team as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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, who managed the Giants from 1993-2002, rejoined the Giants before last season as a special adviser.<\/p>\n

Before joining Houston, Pettis worked as a base coach for the Rangers for Ron Washington\u2019s entire managerial tenure in Texas from 2007-2014. Under Washington, Pettis spent six seasons as first base coach (2007-2012) and two seasons as third base coach (2013-2014).\u00a0Washington said that he\u2019s kept in touch with Pettis and that the two still talk at least twice per week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe picked up some good experience and some good know-how,\u201d Washington said. \u201cHe\u2019s a team player, so I think he\u2019s going to do a good job over there at third base. He\u2019s going to do a tremendous job, really. He sees the game pretty good. He got some stolen base titles, he got some Gold Gloves for being in the outfield, so he\u2019s well-versed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Vitello said on Tuesday that he talked to \u201cas many baseball people as possible\u201d before ultimatley landing on Pettis. The Giants\u2019 manager not only consulted Baker and Washington, but former major leaguer Harold Reynolds and outfielder Drew Gilbert, who was a prospect in the Astros\u2019 system when Pettis was the team\u2019s third base coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cColorado, that was about as big of a hotel space as I\u2019ve had, and probably covered every square inch of that on the phone with everybody, including Buster (Posey), Zach (Minasian), and then other options that were available,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cOnce we got to a certain point, things started to go pretty fast. I think part of that is because of his excitement level and willingness to do it. There really wasn\u2019t any hesitation from him whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants announced this past Friday that Borg would be reassigned to their player development staff after performing poorly as the team\u2019s third base coach, but Minasian said on Tuesday that the team has yet to determine Borg\u2019s new role.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still very talented and a good person, so we\u2019d like to see him back helping (player development),\u201d Minasian said.<\/p>\n

Borg worked daily with the Giants\u2019 infielders along with Washington, the team\u2019s infield coach. With Borg no longer on staff, Washington said he\u2019s ready for the added responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was tough to see him go, you know what I\u2019m saying? It really was,\u201d Washington said. \u201cHe was a good kid, works his butt off. He sure made work easy on me. \u2026 I\u2019ve done it all my life, so now my mind is set to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Worth noting<\/p>\n

Infielder Christian Koss sustained a left wrist fracture. He\u2019ll be re-examined in two weeks.
\nOutfielder Grant McCray has a fractured hamate bone in his left wrist. He\u2019ll undergo surgery in Arizona on Thursday.
\nRight-handed reliever Gregory Santos has a right adductor strain. He\u2019ll miss the next two to three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Less than a week after removing Hector Borg as their third base coach, the Giants announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,2135,184,7,332,402,1533,181,1334,143,145,144,395,182,101,396,4820,127],"class_list":["post-344508","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-inside-sports","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-peninsula","tag-pm-report","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\/344508","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=344508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}