Overview
- MLB.com and the San Francisco Chronicle detail how Vitello hired longtime friend Jayce Tingler as his bench coach shortly after accepting the Giants job.
- Vitello is making an unprecedented leap as the first college coach to move directly into an MLB managerial post without prior pro coaching experience.
- Tingler will serve as Vitello’s right hand in the dugout, planning three to four innings ahead and presenting tactical options as situations develop.
- Their relationship spans roughly 25 years from their days at Missouri, where Vitello later coached Tingler in 2003, a foundation both say will aid communication and trust.
- Tingler, a former Padres manager and recent Twins bench coach, called joining Vitello a “no‑brainer,” as the pair begin on‑field work together at spring camp in Scottsdale.