The Giants are expected to add Justin Meccage as their pitching coach, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. Meccage has spent the majority of his coaching tenure in the Pirates’ organization. He was most recently a minor league coach in the Brewers’ system.
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.
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.
New manager Tony Vitello’s staff is slowly coming together. San Francisco added Hunter Mense as hitting coach last week. Meccage will replace pitching coach J.P. Martinez, who was hired by Atlanta to be their bullpen coach. Martinez had been on the Giants’ staff since 2021.
San Francisco ranked 10th in ERA last season. The staff will be headlined by Logan Webb and Robbie Ray, though the options beyond that tandem are uncertain. The bullpen lost closer Camilo Doval at the trade deadline, then saw replacement Randy Rodriguez go down with an injury that led to Tommy John surgery. General manager Zack Minasian said the offseason plan will involve adding pitching depth.
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Shoulda been Cain or Timmy maybe mad bum
Nah
Bumgarner as a pitching coach would be tragically awful. I cannot express how awful that idea is.
Coaching requires patience, Madison Baumgartner wasn’t exactly known for his patience… lol
You also want a coach that is bought in to the current rules of the game, madbum was very vocally against the pitching clock. You can’t have your coaches causing that kind of rift in your pitching staff. SF needs young blood and a new way of thinking, not old dudes shaking thier fist at the clouds.
Also SF doesn’t need any more nostalgia hires or friends and family hires. I don’t want former players from the World Series days, I don’t want Posey’s former roommate from college, I want to see qualified people.
I wonder what this guy’s qualifications are? Seven years in the minors followed by two years as an assistant pitching coach. Then he was demoted to bullpen coach and fired three years after that. By the Pirates! Must be an old, old pal of Tony’s.
None of those guys need a job.
Looks to me like the game is moving away from hiring big names because they have big names.
??? We’ll See. Pitching wins championships. And the G’s need horses a pen and a closer. All Healthy.
Oof, happy for him, but sucks he isnt with Milwaukee anymore. He wasn’t in Milwaukee long, but multiple guys singled him out as a big reason for their success. Everyone raved about the work he did with Miz, and Myers credited him with teaching him that splitter. He is a “grip doctor”.
Good work, Russell ! Thanks.