Your 2026 Giants New Manager: Tony Vitello

As has been announced for a while, the long time ultra successful University of Tennessee head coach, who led his team to multiple College World Series, and won one in 2024, Tony Vitello, was hired to be the Giants 40th manager in franchise history.  He gets a three year contract, with a vesting option (conditions unknown, but likely wins) for a fourth year, making $3.5M per year.  Which is not much more than his current contract with UT. 

Here are some informative articles and videos about the Giants new manager:

• The Athletic Andy Baggarly: Closing in on Vitello, Pursuit of Vitello meaning, Vitello Timeline (subscription required; but you get Andy Baggarly, who broke the story and had been hinting at the connection for a while now, and is a great storyteller and writer, he’s why I subscribe)
• SF Standard John Shea:  YouTube video (Kerry Crowley and John Shea), Posey Hires Vitello (Subscription required)
• NBC Bay Area Sports Alex Pavlovic:  Vitello Hired YouTube, Vitello Hired, Max Scherzer on why Vitello works, Vitello contract, Vitello shares selfish reason to join Giants
• Baseball America:  Vitello Makes Perfect Sense
• MLB.com:  What Vitello MLB players say about him
• KNBR:  Interview with Vitello after Kilen drafted
• The TK Show:  Dave Fleming discusses Vitello hire, quotes people who know him
• Youth Inc:  Vitello YouTube Interview: Building Winners 
• Yahoo Sports:  Five Facts about Vitello 
• Knoxville News:  Vitello’s Approach to Baseball

Your 2026 Giants: Bryce Eldridge

The Giants top prospect made the majors in 2025, giving a glimpse into his potential, as well as the things he needs to work on.

Your 2026 Giants: Patrick Bailey

Bailey is probably the most misunderstood player on the Giants roster, now that Mike Yastrzemski is no longer on the team.  Players with good defense but only okay offense gets maligned because their defensive value isn’t recognized (like JT Snow).  Many fans want him gone, mainly because of his bat. Many also think his framing skills advantage will disappear with the new ABS system.

Your 2025 Giants: Post Mortem

The Giants Front Office did their annual past season (they call it postseason, but I associate that with the playoffs) press conference, which is available on YouTube. Posey doubled down on and reiterated what he said in last year’s press conferences about the Giants strategy:  pitching and defense.  He also said it again in this NBC Sports snippet.  

He said the Giants this offseason will focus on starting pitching, noting how he thought they had SP depth at the start of the season and learned the adage that you never can have enough pitching. He also noted that they will pursue bullpen help as well.