In the Star Trek universe, the Borg are a race of cyborgs who share a single hive mind and attempt to “assimilate” other beings and cultures into their Collective. On the 2026 San Francisco Giants, Hector Borg was a third base coach who assimilated base runners into easy outs at home plate. Friday, the team acknowledged that their current approach on the bases was futile, and they reassigned the Borg to another role with the team.
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The #SFGiants announced today that they have reassigned third base coach Hector Borg to a new role within their player development staff. Ron Wotus will fill the third base coaching role on an interim basis until the organization identifies a permanent replacement.
— SFGiants (@SFGiants) May 29, 2026
Ron Wotus, who served as the team’s third base coach in 1998 and from 2018-21, will return to the coaching box until further notice, or until the Federation can rid the National League West from the threat of the Borg entirely. It feels like seven of nine baserunners that the Borg sent home were thrown out, with his wildly aggressive decision to wave Willy Adames home from second on a bloop single being the final frontier for manager Tony Vitello to move on.
The relay preserves the lead! pic.twitter.com/44JZxoAaR0
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) May 27, 2026
The Giants hope Wotus will stabilize a coaching position that has been extremely shaky the last two seasons. Former coach Matt Williams was incredible at playing third base, but as a coach, he got a lot of players thrown out by a mile.
Patrick Bailey's single ties it, but potential winning run Jung Hoo Lee is thrown out at home 🫨 pic.twitter.com/b7MAF0hBII
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 26, 2025
Of course, Williams only got Lee thrown out at home, while Borg got Lee thrown out at home and injured back in April. Perhaps Borg was confused by his own race’s invulnerability to energy weapons and believed that extended to catchers’ tags.
Nevertheless, this year’s Giants team needs all the runs it can get. Even a marginal improvement in send/hold decisions at third could go a long way in getting this team to…well, not the playoffs, but a place where the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins no longer see them as peers.
Just be careful if Wotus begins referring to himself as “Locutus.”