{"id":11809,"date":"2025-10-18T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:31:14","slug":"tony-vitello-could-leave-tennessee-takeover-as-san-francisco-giants-manager-the-athletic-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11809\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Vitello could leave Tennessee, takeover as San Francisco Giants manager, The Athletic reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello is reportedly heading to the major leagues to become the new manager for the San Francisco Giants, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6728952\/2025\/10\/18\/sf-giants-tony-vitello-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6728952\/2025\/10\/18\/sf-giants-tony-vitello-manager\/\">The Athletic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The report broke on Saturday, and this comes after Vitello\u2019s name has been linked to the Giants opening since September by The Athletic. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/page\/wvlt-news-and-weather-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wvlt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EAFJZDKWSJFMFGBA5C5FOEW7NM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vitello has seen much success at the University of Tennessee, including a national championship in 2024. Under Vitello, the Vols have had a 235-99 record, including a .580 win percentage in SEC play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Previous Coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2024\/08\/23\/tony-vitello-receives-substantial-raise-new-contract-with-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/2024\/08\/23\/tony-vitello-receives-substantial-raise-new-contract-with-tennessee\/\">Tony Vitello receives substantial raise in contract extension with Tennessee<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The coach is also under contract with Tennessee, signed on to head up the Vols through June of 2029. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No deal has been signed by Vitello and the Giants yet, and there\u2019s been no official announcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WVLT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello is reportedly heading to the major leagues to become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2135,10897,101,103,102,104,106,105,572,10940,10892,10906,10905],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-baseball","tag-giants","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tennessee","tag-tn","tag-tony-vitello","tag-university-of-tennessee","tag-vols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}