Tony Vitello will arrive in the Bay Area next week with a clear conscience. That doesn’t mean the Giants’ new manager didn’t agonize over his decision to leave the University of Tennessee.

“It was selfish,” Vitello told a handful of reporters, including from the Knoxville News Sentinel, this week in Knoxville. “It was personal reasons. 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 will be officially introduced as the Giants’ 40th manager on Thursday, eight days after he was picked by Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey to replace Bob Melvin. The delay is to avoid, as much as possible, stealing some of the spotlight from the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series. Game 1 is t

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