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Giants Hire Ron Wotus As Special Assistant

By Anthony Franco | January 26, 2022 at 9:36pm CDT

The Giants announced this evening they’ve hired Ron Wotus as a special assistant to baseball operations. According to the team, he’ll “serve as a mentor to the coaching staff and players at both the major and minor league levels and provide on-field instruction.” Wotus will attend Spring Training and make appearances with each of the team’s minor league affiliates.

It’s a first-time role for Wotus, but it marks the continuation of a longstanding relationship with the organization. He first joined the Giants as a player in the late 1980’s, then transitioned into managing in their farm system. By 1998, Wotus was promoted to the big league coaching staff. He started off as the club’s third base coach, then spent nearly two decades as bench coach.

Prior to the 2018 campaign, Wotus transitioned back to third base coaching. The 60-year-old spent another four years in that capacity before announcing his retirement from coaching last August, effective at the end of the 2021 season. While that looked to be bringing an end to his 34-year tenure with San Francisco, he’ll now return for a 35th season.

Presumably, the special assistant role will afford Wotus more flexibility in his schedule than would’ve been possible had he remained on Gabe Kapler’s coaching staff. After the season, the Giants promoted assistant coach Mark Hallberg to replace Wotus as third base coach in 2022.

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  1. jessaumodesto

    3 years ago

    At Buffalo Wild Wings (I’m a server) we know him as R Dub

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    • jessaumodesto

      3 years ago

      Also he always orders an Arnold Palmer a d 75 wings

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    • semut

      3 years ago

      Cool story bro

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      • jessaumodesto

        3 years ago

        Thanks. I’ve never seen a man eat so many wings

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  2. tedtheodorelogan

    3 years ago

    Sweet. Gotta love Wotus.

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  3. thickiedon

    3 years ago

    Dang. Only 60

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  4. 5TUNT1N

    3 years ago

    Sf giants legend! Glad your still around wo.

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  5. giantsphan12

    3 years ago

    Glad for WO! Giant for life

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  6. C-Daddy

    3 years ago

    Wotus for POTUS.

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    • Armaments216

      3 years ago

      Or maybe Wotus gets notice for SCOTUS

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  7. Baseball 1600

    3 years ago

    Love to see it. SF coaching legend.

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  8. PutPeteRoseInTheHall

    3 years ago

    Love it. I have a lot of respect for Wotus so I’m very glad he stuck around. I had a feeling he would

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  9. brucenewton

    3 years ago

    Has a team ever won a hundred, then lost a hundred the following season?

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  10. BlueSkies_LA

    3 years ago

    It the 1980s, Anthony. Plural, not possessive.

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  11. Bob333

    3 years ago

    Hired him to keep an eye on that weirdo manager stays in line and does not go lay in the sun on a rock in a fish net thong so the sun rays hit his ball sack.

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    • semut

      3 years ago

      Holy run-on sentence

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