{"id":388546,"date":"2025-10-19T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/388546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:20:26","slug":"tony-vitello-the-next-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/388546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Vitello the next manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between this surprise, there was talk of Bruce Bochy, Nick Hundley all but had the job <\/a>before the Padres position became available (at least, this is me reading between the lines); and other catchers including Vance Wilson and Kurt Suzuki were interviewed while local medial clamored for the team to trade for former backup catcher and current Guardians manager Stephen Vogt. But Buster Posey wants someone who will be in the job for a while and grow into the position, and he seems to have a youthful energy the franchise sorely needs and in a package that doesn\u2019t look and sound like Gabe Kapler.<\/p>\n

Baggarly & co. talk up Vitello\u2019s \u201cdynamism and charisma\u201d and suggest he\u2019ll hit the ground running as a major league manager. Helping matters, supposedly, is that the Giants\u2019 top pick in this past draft was a star infielder for Vitello. Maui Ahuna is already in the organization from a previous draft, and other Volunteers, Drew Gilbert & Blade Tidwell, just came over.<\/p>\n

Most great college sports programs have a defined brand. For Tennessee under Vitello, it\u2019s three things: pitchers who throw hard, position players who hit for power, and a big attitude throughout the roster.<\/p>\n

That last part has made Tennessee a bit polarizing nationally. If there\u2019s anything more annoying than a team that wins all the time, it\u2019s a team that wins all the time and crows about it.<\/p>\n

Now, the Giants are probably 1, 2, or several years away from being good again and Baumann is on the fence about college coaches making the leap<\/a> without any MLB staffing experience (as Brewers\u2019 manager Pat Murphy had before he was elevated), so you can imagine a situation where a fiery personality and a below average roster don\u2019t really inspire, but you can also imagine a passionate manager squeezing just a little bit more out of the roster in a way that avoids too-long losing streaks or prevents 4-9 records against the Dodgers and Padres year in and year out.<\/p>\n

This is a big story to break, and one of the \u201cindustry sources\u201d that Andrew Baggarly has had frequent contact with over the years, including before he moved from the field to the front office, is Buster Posey himself, so I feel that it\u2019s solid reporting to go on to start thinking about this news being announced any day now. It\u2019d be a heckuva swing and a fun experiment-but-not-really-an-experiment. The Giants need a shakeup, and hiring a fiery college coach with a successful track record isn\u2019t so outside the box that it\u2019s hard to imagine it not working. In fact, it\u2019s just crazy enough to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In between this surprise, there was talk of Bruce Bochy, Nick Hundley all but had the job before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,169,975,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-388546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rumors","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-giants","19":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115400567991936097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}