There is no other way to describe the 40th manager in the history of the San Francisco Giants besides unprecedented.

Never before has a coach gone directly from the college ranks to the major leagues with no prior experience, but Tony Vitello will do exactly that when he is introduced as the Giants’ next manager at Oracle Park next Thursday. The club announced the groundbreaking hire Wednesday, three weeks after president of baseball operations Buster Posey decided to fire Bob Melvin.

At the time, Posey said the Giants were seeking “a different voice” to go in a “different direction,” and did they ever.

Whereas Melvin was a milquetoast mainstay with two decades of experience as a major-league manager, Vitello arrives as a 47-year-old firebrand who neither played nor coached at any level

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