San Francisco Giants baserunners will have two new faces instructing them around the diamondnext season.
The Giants announced on Monday that they have named Jose Alguacil as their first-base coach and Phil Nevin as their third-base coach for 2017. They will replaceBill Hayes and Roberto Kelly, respectively.
Alguacil managed the Sacramento River Cats, San Francisco's Triple-A affiliate, in 2016. The former infielder originally joined the organization as a coach in 2007 after playing six seasons in the Giants' farm system from 1993 to 1998.
Nevin was also a minor league manager before joining San Francisco. He guided the Arizona Diamondbacks' Triple-A affiliate in Reno for the past three seasons and also spent three seasons as skipper of the Detroit Tigers' Triple-A team in Toledo. Prior to his coaching career, Nevin played 12 seasons in the big leagues, earning an All-Star selection with the San Diego Padres in 2001.
Current Giants skipper Bruce Bochy was Nevin's manager in San Diego for six seasons.