The San Francisco Giants on Wednesday announced that University of Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello will be the team’s new manager.

Vitello, 47, won the national championship in college baseball in 2024 as part of his eight seasons as Tennessee’s head coach. He will replace Bob Melvin, who the Giants dismissed as manager last month following a disappointing 2025 season that ended without a postseason berth.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.