Rance Mulliniks is in his 5th year as the Giants hitting instructor. Rance has over twenty-five-years of professional baseball experience, fifteen years as a Major League player and five years as a hitting instructor.

Rance was drafted by the California Angels in the 3rd round of the 1974 amateur draft and spent three seasons with the Angels before being traded to the Kansas City Royals in 1979. In 1980 Rance was a member of the American League Champion Kansas City Royals. Rance was later traded to the Toronto Blue Jays in 1982 and played 11 seasons with the Blue Jays from 1982-92. He batted .280 with 68 home runs and 389 RBI in 1115 games as a Blue Jay. Overall, batted .272 with 73 home runs and 435 RBI’s in 1325 Major League games (16 seasons). While playing at the Major League level Mulliniks achieved several accomplishments. He appeared in 11 post season games with the Blue Jays (1985, 1989 & 1991). He batted .250 with one home run and recorded three RBI in those 11 games. He was also a member of the 1992 World Series Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

Rance was known as a disciplined hitter and was named in the September 1999 Baseball Digest as "the player John Olerud learned the most from." In the same issue Jeff Kent (former National League MVP) identified Rance as "one of the players who taught me to be a professional at the game of baseball."

Rance holds the single season fielding percentage record for third baseman (.975) with the
Toronto Blue Jays of which he played eleven seasons. He is also the Toronto Blue Jays all time pinch hit leader with 59. He was named as the utility player on the Blue Jays 25th Anniversary All Time team.

Rance also works as the west coast colour commentator for Rogers Sportsnet’s Blue Jays coverage, and starting in 2007, he is also a colour commentator alongside Jim Hughson and Jesse Barfield on CBC Sports, broadcasting Blue Jays baseball.

Rance and his wife Lori live in Visalia with their son Seth. Rance has three other children, Ryan, Whitney and Merissa.