The Giants appear to have found their next manager.

San Francisco is "closing in" on hiring Tennessee coach Tony Vitello to lead the team for the 2026 MLB season, The Athletic's Andrew Baggarly, Brittany Ghiroli and Ken Rosenthal reported in a shared column published Saturday, citing industry sources.

The Athletic reached out to the Giants, who had not yet responded to a request for comment at the time this article was written. Vitello told The Athletic via text message, "There is nothing to confirm."

Vitello has been on Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey's radar for a while, per NBC Sports Bay Area's Alex Pavlovic. Meanwhile, Texas Rangers special assistant Nick Hundley, who was another frontrunner for the job, recently pulled himself out of the running.

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