SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Giants announced their new hires for the 2026 Major League coaching staff under manager Tony Vitello.
Giants’ 2026 Coaching Staff
Bench Coach: Jayce Tingler
Hitting Coach: Hunter Mense
Assistant Hitting Coach: Oscar Bernard
Pitching Coach: Justin Meccage
Assistant Pitching Coach: Christian Wonders
Director of ML Pitching: Frank Anderson
Bullpen Coach: Jesse Chavez
First Base Coach: Shane Robinson
Third Base Coach: Hector Borg
Field Coordinator & Catching Coach: Alex Burg
ML Infield Coach: Ron Washington
Quality Control Coach: Taira Uematsu
Bullpen Catcher: Eliezer Zambrano
Bench Coach Jayce Tingler, 45, spent the past four seasons as the bench coach for the Minnesota Twins. Before that, he spent two seasons as manager of the San Diego Padres, guiding the club to a 116-106 (.523) record from 2020-21. He led the Padres to the National League Division Series in 2020 and finished second in National League Manager of the Year voting that season. Before taking the helm in San Diego, he held a variety of positions across 13 seasons with the Texas Rangers organization (2007-19). The Smithville, MO native was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 10th round of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Missouri. The former outfielder played parts of four seasons in the Toronto (2003-05) and Texas (2006) systems before shifting to coaching. He and Vitello were teammates at the University of Missouri in the early 2000s.
Hitting Coach Hunter Mense, 41, joins the Giants staff after spending the past four seasons as an assistant hitting coach with the reigning American League Champion Toronto Blue Jays. This past season, the Jays led the Majors with a .265 average, .333 on-base percentage, and 1,461 hits. They also struck out the second-fewest times in the Majors (1,099), had the lowest strikeout rate in the Majors (17.8%) and the highest contact rate (78.5%) of any club. Prior to his role on the Major League staff, Mense was a hitting coach at Double-A New Hampshire in 2018 and then the Jays’ minor league hitting coordinator from 2019 until joining the Major League staff in 2022. Before joining the Blue Jays organization, Mense spent six years as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri, his alma mater, from 2011-2016 and was a hitting coach at Short-Season Tri-City in the Padres’ organization in 2017. The Liberty, MO native played for Mizzou from 2004-2006 when Vitello was an assistant coach on the staff.
Pitching Coach Justin Meccage (message), 45, joins Vitello’s coaching staff for 2026 after spending the 2025 campaign as a pitching coach for Triple-A Nashville in the Brewers organization. The Sounds had the third-best ERA (3.91) in the 20-team International League, allowed the second-fewest homers, issued the second-fewest walks and had the third-best WHIP in the circuit. Prior to his work in Nashville, Meccage spent seven seasons on the Pirates’ Major League staff, serving as the assistant pitching coach (2018-2019) and bullpen coach (2020-2024). Overall, Meccage spent 14 seasons in the Pirates organization from 2011-2024, working his way up from pitching coach at Short-Season State College in 2011 to his roles on the Major League staff. Meccage began his coaching career at the collegiate level, serving as an assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and pitching coach for Texas-Pan American University from 2004-2007. From August 2007-2010, Meccage was a coach at Arkansas State University.
Assistant Pitching Coach Christian Wonders, 33, is on a Major League staff for the first time. He’s spent the last two seasons as the pitching coordinator, performance development in the Tampa Bay Rays system. Prior to joining the Rays organization, Wonders was in the Padres system serving as roving instructor, sports science (2021-2023), and rehab pitching coordinator (2019-2021). He previously served as the pitching coach for the Cape Cod League’s Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox (2018-2019), and a pitching consultant with Georgia Tech (2018-2019). With Yarmouth-Dennis in 2018, Wonders coached current Giants C Patrick Bailey and IF Christian Koss. Wonders played collegiately at Palm Beach Atlantic and Georgia College & State University.
Director of ML Pitching Frank Anderson, 66, joins the Giants from the University of Tennessee, where he worked as Vitello’s pitching coach. Anderson, who joined Tennessee in June of 2017, played an instrumental role in helping the Volunteers become one of the country's elite programs under Vitello. During his extensive collegiate career, he has coached more than 100 pitchers selected in the MLB Draft, including 10 first-rounders (four at Tennessee). He’s also been the pitching coach at the University of Houston (2013-2017), Texas (2000-2003) and Texas Tech (1990-1999). He also managed at the collegiate level, serving as the head coach at Oklahoma State from 2004-2012. All told, Anderson spent 42 years coaching in the collegiate ranks since his first college coaching job in 1984 at Emporia State, his alma mater. Anderson’s son, Brett, was a Major League pitcher from 2009-2021, appearing in 222 career games (210 starts).
Bullpen Coach Jesse Chavez, 42, will embark on his coaching career with the Giants in 2026 after an 18-year Major League career. A World Series Champion with the Braves in 2021, Chavez appeared in four games for Atlanta in 2025 that were the last of his Major League career before he announced his retirement last July. Over 18 seasons with Pittsburgh (2008-2009), Atlanta (2010, 2021, 2022-2025), Kansas City (2010-2011), Toronto (2012, 2016), Oakland (2012-2015), Los Angeles-NL (2016), Los Angeles-AL (2017, 2022), Texas (2018, 2019-2020) and Chicago-NL (2018, 2022) Chavez appeared in 657 career games and was 51-66 with a 4.27 ERA. A native of Fontana, CA, Chavez owned a 1.42 ERA in 11 career postseason games (one start) with most of that coming in the Braves’ run to the World Series title in 2021.
First Base Coach Shane Robinson, 41, is on a Major League staff for the first time in his career and will be in his second season in the Giants organization after serving as the minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator in 2025. Prior to joining San Francisco, Robinson spent two seasons in a similar capacity with the New York Mets. He served as their minor league outfield coordinator in 2024 and their outfield and baserunning coordinator in 2023. In 2022, Robinson was the bench coach at Double-A San Antonio in the Padres system. An outfielder as a player, Robinson appeared in 461 career Major League games for St. Louis (2009, 2011-2014), Minnesota (2015), Los Angeles-AL (2016-2017) and New York-AL (2018). He appeared in a career-best 102 games in 2012 for St. Louis and hit .253. In 717 career minor league games from 2006-2019, Robinson slashed .286/.348/.390.
Third Base Coach Hector Borg, 40, is on a Major League staff for the first time in his career. He’s spent the last two seasons (2024 and 2025) as the Giants’ Arizona complex coordinator. Prior to serving in that role, Borg was the club’s coordinator of Latin American development for four seasons from 2020-2023. Overall, Borg has been coaching in the Giants player development group since 2008 and served in various roles, including manager (2017 Rookie-level AZL Giants, 2018 Short-Season Salem-Keizer and part of the 2019 season at High-A San Jose), fundamentals coach (2019 DSL Giants) and infield instructor (2012 with SalemKeizer). He was also a part of Single-A Augusta’s coaching staff for four seasons from 2013-16 and coached four seasons with the Dominican Summer League Giants (2008-11). Borg has also coached in the Dominican Winter League for 17 seasons, with the Tigres del Licey (2023-present) and Toros del Este (2011-2022). He managed the Dominican Republic during the 2020 Olympic qualifiers and the Tokyo Games (both held in 2021), leading the DR to a bronze medal finish. Signed by the Giants as an international free agent in 2004, Borg played four seasons in the Giants’ system (through 2007) before joining the coaching ranks.
Major League Infield Coach Ron Washington, 73, joins the Giants after having just completed his 35th year as a professional coach (30th as a Major League coach) this past season as manager of the Los Angeles Angels. Washington, who was hired by the Angels prior to the 2024 season, went 99-137 (.419) in his two seasons with Los Angeles. Combined with his eight seasons as manager of the Texas Rangers (2007-2014) in which he won two American League pennants in 2010 and 2011, Washington has a career managerial record of 763-748 (.505). In addition to his managerial record, Washington served as third base coach for the Atlanta Braves from 2017-23 (including their World Series-winning season in 2021), third base coach for the Athletics from 1997-2006 and 2015-16, first base coach for the Athletics in 1996 and five seasons as a Minor League coach from 1991-1996. Washington has been credited with coaching numerous Gold Glove award-winning infielders, including Dansby Swanson, Freddie Freeman, Adrian Beltré, Michael Young and Eric Chávez. The New Orleans, LA native played parts of 10 seasons in the Majors (1977, 1981-89) with Los Angeles-NL, Minnesota, Baltimore, Cleveland and Houston.
Returning to the Giants as coaches in 2026 are Assistant Hitting Coach Oscar Bernard, Quality Control Coach Taira Uematsu and Bullpen Catcher Eliezer Zambrano. Alex Burg also returns to the coaching staff in 2026 after being promoted to Field Coordinator & Catching Coach.