Giants Finalize 2026 Coaching Staff
The Giants officially announced Tony Vitello’s first major league coaching staff on Friday afternoon. Although much of the staff had been previously reported, the team revealed the promotions of Shane Robinson and Hector Borg as their respective base coaches.
Robinson, 41, takes over as the first base coach. He was a depth outfielder who played parts of nine MLB seasons. He retired from playing after the 2021 season and jumped into a coaching role in the San Diego farm system. Robinson also worked for the Mets before taking a minor league outfield/baserunning coach job with the Giants last year. This is his first stint on a major league staff.
The 40-year-old Borg — the team’s new third base coach — is also an internal promotion. He’s an organizational lifer who played four seasons in the minors before moving into coaching in 2008. Borg has had various roles with the team’s affiliates over the past decade and a half. He also managed his native Dominican Republic at the Tokyo Olympics five years ago. This is his first job on a big league staff. Enrique Rojas of ESPN first reported that Borg would join the MLB staff in an unspecified capacity last month.
The remainder of Vitello’s staff is as follows: bench coach Jayce Tingler, hitting coach Hunter Mense, pitching coach Justin Meccage, director of pitching Frank Anderson, assistant hitting coach Oscar Bernard, assistant pitching coach Christian Wonders, bullpen coach Jesse Chavez, infield coach Ron Washington, field coordinator/catching coach Alex Burg, quality control coach Taira Uematsu, and bullpen catcher Eliezer Zambrano. Bernard, Uematsu, Zambrano and Burg are holdovers from Bob Melvin’s staff — though Burg was promoted to the field coordinator role in addition to his previous catching duties.
Giants Hire Frank Anderson To Coaching Staff
Frank Anderson is leaving the University of Tennessee’s coaching staff for an unspecified role on the Giants‘ coaching staff, according to Baseball America’s Jacob Rudner. Anderson had been working as the Volunteers’ pitching coach since 2017, and was acting as the interim head coach after Tony Vitello left the team to become the Giants’ new manager last month.
Now, the 66-year-old Anderson will join Vitello in San Francisco, looking to continue the success the duo shared in Tennessee. This will be Anderson’s first coaching job in the majors, but he isn’t exactly a stranger to the Show, as his son Brett Anderson pitched 13 MLB seasons from 2008-21.
Reports emerged earlier this week that Justin Meccage will be the Giants’ new pitching coach, so Anderson could be taking on an assistant pitching coach job or perhaps could be moving into the bullpen coach vacancy. There has been plenty of turnover on the coaching staff with Vitello coming in, and the new hires have included Meccage, hitting coach Hunter Mense, Jayce Tingler in an unspecified role, and now Anderson.
Like Vitello, Anderson brings a wealth of experience from the collegiate ranks, as Rudner writes that “Anderson is regarded as one of the premier pitching developers in college baseball.” Anderson has over four decades of experience as an assistant and head coach in college ball, including nine seasons as Oklahoma State’s head coach from 2003-2012.