{"id":234868,"date":"2025-10-18T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:53:07","slug":"giants-moving-toward-hiring-tennessees-tony-vitello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234868\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants ‘moving toward’ hiring Tennessee’s Tony Vitello"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first external hire of MLB\u2019s managerial cycle is set to become a stunner.<\/p>\n

President of baseball operations Buster Posey and the Giants are \u201cmoving toward\u201d hiring Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported<\/a> the development.<\/p>\n

Tony Vitello is pictured during a June 2025 game. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tony Vitello is pictured during a June 2025 game for Tennessee. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Vitello, when contacted by the outlet, responded, \u201cThere is nothing to confirm,\u201d and the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that he addressed the Volunteers<\/a> in right field following a fall scrimmage and talked about the reports linking him to the Giants.<\/p>\n

If the Giants agree on a deal with Vitello, a decision would occur at some point over the next 24 to 72 hours, according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He would leave the national powerhouse he helped build \u2014 guiding Tennessee to the 2024 national championship \u2014 and take over the position that opened when the Giants fired Bob Melvin, becoming the first manager in history to go from a college coach to a professional manager without any previous MLB jobs, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the guy who probably convinced Buster Posey he could beat the Dodgers,\u201d an anonymous source told the San Francisco Standard<\/a>. \u201cNo doubt in my mind that he walked in and said that. Just give me the horses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Vitello, 47, has never served as an MLB coach before, with the former Missouri infielder working as an assistant for the Tigers, TCU and Arkansas before getting hired as the Volunteers\u2019 head coach ahead of the 2018 season.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has advanced to either the super regional or the College World Series in each of the last five seasons, with its initial CWS appearance under Vitello marking the program\u2019s first since 2005.<\/p>\n

Tony Vitello walks out to the pitcher\u2019s mound during Tennessee\u2019s May 16 game. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Vitello bolting for the Giants would add a shocking jolt to the managerial hiring process, and given his reported salary of $3 million at Tennessee, The Athletic added that he could instantly become one of the highest-paid managers.<\/p>\n

The Rangers made the first managerial decision of the cycle when they moved Skip Schumaker \u2014 who led the Marlins from 2022-24 and was most recently a senior advisor to president of baseball operations Chris Young \u2014 from their front office to the bench, while the Padres, Braves, Angels and Twins still have openings to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first external hire of MLB\u2019s managerial cycle is set to become a stunner. President of baseball operations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[12402,363,2329,99,19501],"class_list":["post-234868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-buster-posey","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}