Former Vols Baseball Coach Tony Vitello Explains Why the MLB Was a "Recent Dream"

Former Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello spoke to the San Francisco Giants media for the very first time on Thursday. In the press conference many things were discussed, including how the MLB was a "recent dream" prior to accepting the manager job for the San Francisco Giants. Here is what he had to say in the conversation.
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Former Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello was hired by San Francisco to fill its vacant managerial position in MLB on Oct. 22. Vitello joins Dick Howser as a college baseball head coach in going directly to MLB as a manager. Howser was head ...

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Coaches who made rare MLB jump had paths cross with Arkansas baseball

Tony Vitello was a fourth-year hitting coach and Wes Johnson a first-year pitching coach at Arkansas during the 2017 season. That team went 45-19 and laid the foundation for the Razorbacks’ national runner-up finish the following year and plenty of success that has followed for one of the SEC’s top programs.
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