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Former Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello enters his first season as San Francisco 's manager in MLB. He was hired by the Giants on Oct. 22, 2025.
San Francisco will begin spring training on Feb. 21 against Seattle at Peoria Stadium in Peoria, Arizona.
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The Giants' first spring training home game is scheduled for Feb. 22 versus the Cubs at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2026 MLB regular season will open with Vitello and San Francisco hosting the Yankees on March 25 at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California.
"To leave where I was at was not easy," Vitello said when introduced as San Francisco's manager . "It had to be a certain set of circumstances that would even be considered, and ultimately what this was about was, some personal introspective, two words that I diagnosed were risk and challenge, and they both are kind of the same thing.
"If you talk about risk, it kind of sounds like you can lose it all if it doesn't go well. To me, this was more about a challenge. No matter how each day goes, and again to beat up the theme, I am very well aware there's a higher sample size, so therefore more days, regardless of how it goes, are you willing to meet the challenge? What a challenge is, is something that you find out what you can and can't do. That's something we preached to our players all the time at Tennessee, so who am I to preach that but to not do it. When you head into a challenge, you want a level of confidence, and again there are so many unknowns. I can't tell you what that level is from me, but the level of the people surrounding me here, whether it's the roster, which is pretty good, or the other people in the organization, and in particular the guy sitting to the right of me ( Buster Posey ), the confidence is through the roof."
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On Friday ahead of spring training, the Giants announced their 2026 coaching staff and is listed below.
2026 San Francisco Giants coaching staff
| Coach |
Title |
| Tony Vitello |
Manager |
| Frank Anderson |
Director of ML pitching |
| Oscar Bernard |
Assistant hitting coach |
| Hector Borg |
Third base coach |
| Alex Burg |
Field coordinator and catching |
| Bullpen coach |
|
| Justin Meccage |
Pitching coach |
| Hunter Mense |
Hitting coach |
| First base coach |
|
| Jayce Tingler |
Bench coach |
| Taira Uematsu |
Quality control |
| Ron Washington |
Infield coach |
| Christian Wonders |
Assistant pitching coach |
| Eliezer Zambrano |
Bullpen catcher |
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