US EditionTony Vitello Takes Daunting Step From College Ranks to MLB Dugout as Giants Manager
Tony Vitello, who led Tennessee to the 2024 College World Series title, becomes MLB’s first manager hired directly from college baseball, aiming to reshape Giants culture.
- On Oct. 22, Tony Vitello, former University of Tennessee coach, was officially hired as the San Francisco Giants' manager, becoming the first college coach directly hired as an MLB manager.
- Because he led Tennessee to its first national title and won multiple SEC titles, Buster Posey highlighted Vitello's culture-building and direct manner as reasons for the Giants' hire.
- Facing skepticism, Tony Vitello said, `As a coach, I was just trying to make my way` during his introduction at Oracle Park as the Giants' new manager.
- Buster Posey, Giants President of Baseball Operations, said Vitello's leadership will impact both the San Francisco Giants clubhouse and fanbase, while Zack Minasian, Giants general manager, called the hire 'really interesting'.
- The move could foster collaboration between Major League Baseball and college baseball as star power grows, while observers said it may redefine the Giants and shift baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Johnson City Press
Kingsport Times-NewsVitello takes daunting step from college ranks to MLB dugout
SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Vitello fully recognizes he is a most unconventional call-up to Major League Baseball, making the leap from the college coaching ranks at Tennessee to the San Francisco Giants while bypassing the minor league farm system.
Marin Independent Journal
New SF Giants manager Tony Vitello, indoctrinated into team’s culture years ago, ready for the challenge
SAN FRANCISCO — Born a Midwesterner, adopted by Southerners, Tony Vitello was a long way from home when he was introduced Thursday as the next manager of the San Francisco Giants. It wasn’t, however, the first time the 47-year-old headed west while charting unfamiliar terrain. “He was probably the most passionate about baseball of all the players that we had,” Debra Cole said of the college-aged Vitello who arrived at their house in Salinas, som…
The Mercury news
Kurtenbach: ‘He’s going to be okay with ruffling feathers’ — Tony Vitello is here to shake up the SF Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — New Giants manager Tony Vitello has a message for the fanbase on his first day of work: He has no idea how this is going to go. “I wish I had an answer in my own head to be honest with you,” Vitello said. “Because as I first got here, I was like, man, there are a lot of unknowns.” There sure are. Vitello is the first manager in big-league history to jump directly from a college baseball dugout — he was previously the manager at t…
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