Giants manager Tony Vitello too candid with media, baseball experts say
See what baseball experts said about first-year San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello's willingness to tell everything to reporters.
The San Francisco Giants are trying to get rolling early in the Tony Vitello era , having won three of their last four games after a 0-3 start to the season. Vitello has shown excitement, passion and a willingness to share the ins and outs during his first year as a MLB manager, but some want him to tone it down. Sports personality Chris Rose compared the Giants' skipper to Team USA manager Mark DeRosa in how open he was with the media during a radio appearance on The Morning Roast with Joe Spadoni and Joe Shasky on 95.
7 The Game, the Bay Area's sports station. "I think he's got a little bit of Mark DeRosa syndrome," Rose said on the radio show. "What I mean by that is D-Ro, who's a buddy of mine, I worked with him for a decade at Major League Baseball Network.
To me, his biggest issue with Team USA was that he kind of let us in a little too much. " He added: "I know that's fun for us as people who are consuming and talking about content, but like, when D-Ro goes, 'yeah, the players, they invited all the coaches in to have a beer, and then the next day, some guys were hurting a little bit. ' Like, that's okay to do, it's okay for the coaches to have a beer with their players and tell stories, and it's okay for players to be hurting a little bit the next day.
Don't let everybody know. " Vitello has a knack for painting a picture when fielded questions from reporters. Rose is absolutely right, in a sense that it makes better for hits and clicks.
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