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Former Tennessee Vols baseball coach Tony Vitello has had a tough first season as the San Francisco Giants\u2019 manager.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s been plenty of speculation<\/a> about Tony Vitello\u2019s future with the San Francisco Giants amid what\u2019s been a tough first season as a manager in the big leagues. <\/p>\n The Giants, however, essentially confirmed this week that they\u2019re in it for the long haul with Vitello. <\/p>\n San Francisco allowed President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey, the man who hired Vitello, to essentially enter a mini-rebuild by trading off several veteran players before the deadline earlier this week. <\/p>\n That move signals that ownership is on board with giving Posey and Vitello a couple of seasons to make it work with a younger roster. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen Buster Posey traded six major-league players for a heap of prospects before Monday\u2019s deadline, he did more than reshuffle the roster and replenish the farm system,\u201d wrote the San Francisco Standard\u2019s John Shea<\/a>. \u201cHe provided Tony Vitello with security.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPosey\u2019s new direction signifies more than ever that he\u2019s in it for the long haul \u2014 especially because most of the newcomers won\u2019t be seen at Oracle Park in the near future \u2014 and that he needs Vitello to oversee the transition,\u201d added Shea. \u201cA few weeks back, Posey said he\u2019s \u2018committed to seeing it through,\u2019 a clear indication he remains dedicated to turning the Giants around even if it takes longer than he had anticipated. \u2026 In effect, the Posey-Vitello partnership isn\u2019t ending anytime soon, which might not satisfy the lunatic fringe, but it makes sense. Posey is determined to make it work, and Vitello is the guy to tutor a roster that\u2019s full of youth.\u201d<\/p>\n Vitello is Posey\u2019s guy \u2014 there\u2019s no way he\u2019s going to fire the former Tennessee Vols coach after just one season (especially since the main reason for the Giants\u2019 struggles was a flawed roster). They\u2019re in this together. <\/p>\n The jury is still out on how Vitello will ultimately fare in the big leagues. But a younger roster could be the ticket to bringing out the best in the former Tennessee coach. <\/p>\n Vitello admitted earlier this year that he\u2019s had to change a bit<\/a> in the big leagues \u2014 which isn\u2019t ideal, because what made Tony V special at Tennessee is exactly who the Giants need him to be. <\/p>\n \u201cIf Tony ever asked me, which hopefully he doesn\u2019t, but if he ever asks me [for advice],\u201d said Giants play-by-play announcer Dave Fleming in July<\/a>. \u201cI just want to see Tony be himself \u2014 be his authentic self. I think he\u2019s been so deferential to all of the veterans around him \u2014 veteran coaches and veteran players \u2014 and I understand why. [He\u2019s] new to this. \u2026 but the Giants hired him to be him.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s been a lot of talk that Vitello could return to college. Maybe he eventually does \u2014 no one knows how his time with the Giants will play out. But it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019ll be making a move back to the college game in the next year or two \u2014 he\u2019s going to have some runway to see this through in San Francisco.<\/p>\n \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t Rickey Gibson III left the Tennessee Vols last winter to join the Texas A&M Aggies. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t7 hours ago\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t Tennessee Volunteers News<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t 2027 five-star running back David Gabriel Georges committed to the Tennessee Volunteers last month. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t8 hours ago\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Tennessee Vols<\/a> Tony Vitello<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Vols baseball coach Tony Vitello has had a tough first season as the San Francisco Giants\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,16064,10892],"class_list":["post-427339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tennessee-vols","tag-tony-vitello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339","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=427339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tennessee](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-07-at-9.20.33-AM-200x200.png\")
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t5-star Vols commit David Gabriel Georges endorses strong message about Tennessee that involves Peyton Manning\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n