{"id":561276,"date":"2026-02-08T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:16:16","slug":"former-tennessee-baseball-coach-tony-vitello-announces-full-staff-with-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561276\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Baseball Coach Tony Vitello Announces Full Staff With San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tony-Vitello.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-179747\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Tony Vitello\" width=\"639\" height=\"413\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763083333_611_Tony-Vitello-300x194.jpg\"\/><\/a>Photo via the San Francisco Giants on X (Twitter)\/ @SFGiants<\/p>\n<p>After departing from Tennessee baseball as the most accomplished coach in program history and bringing a national title to Knoxville, Tony Vitello made the unprecedented move to leap to the MLB and join the San Francisco Giants. Now, on Friday, he announced his full first Major League coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable name for Vol fans, which was previously announced, is Frank Anderson. The pitching coach under Vitello at Tennessee is now the Director of Major League Pitching with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full list of coaches announced by the Giants:<\/p>\n<p>Manager \u2013 Tony Vitello<br \/>\nDirector of ML Pitching \u2013 Frank Anderson<br \/>\nAssistant Hitting Coach \u2013 Oscar Bernard<br \/>\nThird Base Coach \u2013 Hector Borg<br \/>\nField Coordinator &amp; Catching \u2013 Alex Burg<br \/>\nBullpen Coach \u2013 Jesse Chavez<br \/>\nPitching Coach \u2013 Justin Meccage<br \/>\nHitting Coach \u2013 Hunter Mense<br \/>\nFirst Base Coach \u2013 Shane Robinson<br \/>\nBench Coach \u2013 Jayce Tingler<br \/>\nQuality Control \u2013 Taira Uematsu<br \/>\nInfield Coach \u2013 Ron Washington<br \/>\nAssistant Pitching Coach \u2013 Christian Wonders<br \/>\nBullpen Catcher \u2013 Eliezer Zambrano<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Presenting the full 2026 Major League coaching staff, led by Manager Tony Vitello \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KZ4w3DTnXU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KZ4w3DTnXU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SFGiants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/2019854768538300634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More From RTI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/02\/06\/former-tennessee-star-andrew-fischer-italy-world-baseball-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Former Tennessee Baseball Star To Compete In World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vitello\u2019s departure at UT was filled by associate head coach Josh Elander. He is joined by Chuck Jeroloman as the associate head coach, Ross Kivett as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator and Josh Reynolds as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p>Elander also has a number of important pieces on his support staff. This includes Keegan Knoll, Craig Bell, Zach Stovall, Ricky Martinez, Adam Low, Parker Serrano, Kirby Connell, Ethan Payne, Jeff Wood and Sarah Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p>The Vols get the season started this Friday, Feb. 13, against Nicholls. That\u2019ll be a three-game set before Tennessee welcomes in UNC Asheville the following Tuesday. Then, it\u2019s another three-game series with Kent State ahead of a matchup with Bellarmine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That paves the way for the first big tests of the year. Tennessee will play in the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series against UCLA, Arizona State and Virginia Tech, beginning on Friday, Feb. 27, at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via the San Francisco Giants on X (Twitter)\/ @SFGiants After departing from Tennessee baseball as the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,2410,15863,1870],"class_list":{"0":"post-561276","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-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-giants","17":"tag-sfgiants","18":"tag-tennessee-baseball","19":"tag-tennessee-vols","20":"tag-tony-vitello"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116035910921917533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561276","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=561276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}