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Tony Vitello’s Stunning MLB Jump Comes With $3M Tennessee Buyout
Vitello heads to San Francisco after winning a national championship in 2024. The post Tony Vitello’s Stunning MLB Jump Comes With $3M Tennessee Buyout appeared first on Front Office Sports.
The conventional path is managing in Triple-A for a decade. The conventional path is being a polite bench coach, biding your time, saying the right things, and thanking the organization for the opportunity to interview for a main gig every now and again.
Tony Vitello’s move from coach of the Volunteers to manager of the San Francisco Giants shook up major league baseball and stunned at least part of the civilized world. It obviously wasn’t impossible but nothing like that had ever happened.
From Tennessee coach to San Francisco Giants manager, Tony Vitello faces a steep learning curve. Collegiate machismo and mastery of recruitment can go only so far in MLB.
The San Francisco Giants hired Tony Vitello, the first to jump from college coaching to an MLB manager role with no prior big-league experience.