Buster Posey introduces ‘natural leader’ Tony Vitello as new Giants manager | NBC Sports Bay Area

Buster Posey introduces ‘natural leader’ Tony Vitello as new Giants manager | NBC Sports Bay Area

All right. Good morning, everyone. My name is Matt Chisum. I’m the vice president of media relations for the Giants. Uh, I’m honored to be with you here on this very special day. I’d like to welcome everyone with us here at Oracle Park as well as those watching on sfgiants.com, sfiggantes.com, the Giants YouTube channel, NBC Sports Bay Area, and those listening on K&BR. Last week, the Giants officially announced that Tony Vitello has been named the 40th manager in Giants history. Tony, welcome to San Francisco. Thank you. It’s a privilege to have you. Let’s We’ll take it. It’s a privilege to have you, your parents, Greg and Kathleen, your sisters, Christine, Cara, and Katie, your brother-in-law, Rich, your nieces and nephew, and other members of your family and friends here today. Also with us today on the Deis is Giants President Baseball operations, Buster Posey, and Giants general manager, Zack Manassian. I’d also like to recognize in attendance Giants chairman Greg Johnson, Giants president, Larry Bear, and members of the Giants front office that are here today. Also, we have the three Kyper brothers. I would like to acknowledge Jeff, Dwayne, and Glenn are here today. Welcome you guys. And now, it’s my pleasure to turn things over to Buster Posie. Thanks, Matt. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here today. Uh today is a very exciting day for our organization as we welcome Tony as the new manager of the San Francisco Giants. You know, when we first started talking to Tony, it was uh abundantly clear that he was a natural leader. um you know wide range of topics and I think some some highlights that I came away with from those conversations were you know some of his vision uh his conciseness and and plenty of other leadership qualities. I think where it really took off for me is when you start making phone calls and you talk to so many different people that have come into contact with him for years and years and been in his world. Um, and you start to hear some of the attributes and and conversely Tony had a lot of conversations with people in our own organization and the feedback was all the same. Um, you know, it was the response was this guy’s a winner. um he’s he has a vision to to be great and not just for himself that that that’s going to uh rub off on those around him. There’s an expectation that that he’ll get the best um from everybody that he comes into contact with. You know, Tony’s a teacher. He’s a motivator, uh tireless worker, and someone who understands how to build culture. We believe his leadership is not only going to uh impact our clubhouse, but it’s also going to impact our organization and our entire uh fan base as well. Thrilled to have Tony as our manager. Um high confidence that together we can build something really special here in San Francisco. And so now it’s my pleasure to introduce Tony Vitello as the next manager of the San Francisco Giants. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. You going to mess up that here? I think we should a little more comfortable. [Applause] Tony. Yeah. Um, obviously thank you to Buster, uh, to Zach, to Greg Johnson, uh, Larry. Um, all the ownership, really all the organization, and then I know players feedback was important. Um, that’s kind of where my whole deal has started is with players. uh Gavin Keelin, who some of you may know was uh fortunate enough to be a first round pick here. And that’s where some of those conversations uh exist between the college level and the pro level. Um and obviously something all those players are aspiring aspiring to do is make it to the big leagues. And as this process has gone on, it’s been funny. I’ve gotten a lot of text messages about living out your dream or somebody said um you know when you have baseball cards when you’re little little which I still have some um I don’t know if they’re worth anything or not but um you know did you dream or you dreamed of being this I I never dreamed of being a major league baseball player. I I don’t know why my skill level wasn’t very high. I think it was just so far above the clouds um that I never even saw it. And for me as a coach I was just kind of trying to make my way. I got thrust into a position at a young age that I probably didn’t even deserve. Um, so I was just trying to do a good job and fortunately it it helped get me to the next spot and the next spot and the next spot and eventually this did become a dream uh where I just kind of decided if it was you know if I was blessed enough to receive an opportunity this is something I wanted to do before I was done coaching you know in general. and now I’m incredibly humbled uh and blessed to do so. So, it is a a a dream come true, but it’s it’s a very recent dream. It wasn’t one I had for a while. And as much as I’d love to sit up here and promise things and pound my fist on the desk and all that and really alls I want to do is a good job. And I think um because of being around my dad and being blessed around winning players similar to Buster, uh those standards are very high. And I have spent some I know it’ll be a question later. I have some spent some time around this organization either as a fan or just watching or again through business ways. I’m fully aware of the tradition that’s here and the excellence that’s been brought um by managers like Bochi, Dusty Baker, um the toughness from guys like Bombgardner and and Romo. the loyalty, which is incredibly important, uh, you know, word to me and my family, which is epitomized by the guy to my right. Um, and, you know, the records that have been set by guy, guys like Bonds and Maize and Linskum and everybody else. And then, you know, the one thing that always got to me was the the family, the sense of family that was a part of this organization. And one of the players I coached came up during Hunter Pence’s playing days and just talked about how good that guy was to everybody in the organization, especially younger aspiring players and rookies. Um so there’s a there’s a lot to learn from from the past and there is very high expectations very high standards to meet because of the past and u this is a challenge that’s been presented to me and um again I’m humbled and honored to be here in front of you today to take on that challenge.

Buster Posey introduces Tony Vitello to the media as the new manager of the San Francisco Giants.

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