SF Giants reportedly add former Padres, Rays pitching voice to the coaching staff

The SF Giants have reportedly made another key hire to the coaching staff. According to Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle, the Giants are hiring Christian Wonders as an assistant pitching coach.

SF Giants reportedly add former Padres, Rays pitching voice to the coaching staff

Let's hope he does... Wonders. The Giants have not announced Tony Vitello's coaching staff yet, but some hires have been reported.

Former San Diego Padres manager Jayce Tingler is joining the club as Vitello's bench coach. He had spent four seasons in that role under Rocco Baldelli with the Minnesota Twins. When they parted ways with Baldelli at the end of the 2025 season, Tingler was allowed to interview elsewhere. Tingler and Vitello were teammates as the University of Missouri in the early 2000's.

Hunter Mense will join the staff on the hitting side. He has served as an assistant hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays for the past four seasons. This includes the 2025 season, where Toronto reached the World Series, but lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.

On the pitching side, the Giants have made two notable hires in Justin Meccage and Frank Anderson. Meccage served as an instructor and coach in the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers organizations. Anderson spent eight seasons as the pitching coach for the University of Tennessee. His new role with San Francisco is unspecified, but he will likely serve as an instructor or coordinator.

Christian Wonders now joins the coaching staff as an assistant pitching coach. He has an interesting and forward-thinking background in pitching. This is the type of background that the Giants need.

Wonders worked as a pitching coordinator at Cresses Sports Performance for three years. Driveline is one of the more well known pitching performance organizations, but Cresses Sports Performance is in that same industry.

More recently, Wonders worked as a roving instructor for the San Diego Padres for four seasons, followed by a two-year stint as a minor league pitching coordinator in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. The Padres and Rays are some of the most successful organizations in terms of pitching development, so he has a strong pedigree.

While the Giants made sweeping changes to the coaching staff, they retained a pair of holdovers in assistant hitting coach Oscar Bernard and quality control coach Taira Uematsu.