New San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello admitted it was difficult to leave his job as Tennessee baseball coach but ultimately called it the correct decision to make the unprecedented jump straight to the top of a major league clubhouse.

"It was selfish. It was personal reasons," Vitello told reporters Thursday, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel . "I have always tried to be a good teammate, but I feel like I made a selfish decision that was one I needed to make. It was the right decision."

Vitello's hiringmarks the first time a big league team has hired a manager directly from a college program without any experience as a professional coach. Vitello was first publicly linked to the Giants on Saturday when he was identified as the favorite for the job, but he said no decis

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