Ambitious Vision: New Giants Manager Tony Vitello; Ravy on the Red Sox & Pete Alonso

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Buster and Karl Ravech discuss Ravy’s experiences with new Giants manager Tony Vitello while he was in Knoxville, why World Series Game 7 in 1991 was on-par with this year’s World Series Game 7, the much-discussed Isiah Kiner-Falefa secondary lead, the Tigers exploring trades for Tarik Skubal, if the Mets will re-sign Pete Alonso, and what the Red Sox should do this winter. Then, newly appointed San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello stops by to talk about his journey as a star college baseball coach at Tennessee to the Bay Area, which Hall of Famers are advising him in his career, what could translate from college to the pros, how he weighed staying at Tennessee versus going to the big leagues, and if he’ll team-up with his pal Max Scherzer. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 0:00 Karl Ravech 26:39 Tony Vitello 44:26 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Way out of here. This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:41.7	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, November 7th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.9	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:52.5	Taylor Schwink is working from the Schwink studios back in
0:54.9	Connecticut. And Taylor, big guest today, Tony Vitello, the new manager of the San Francisco
1:00.4	Giants. I'm a huge Tony Vitello guy. Our guy Carl Ravich told us that he is a good egg, but
1:06.7	a little chit chat with him off the air. The interview is great. I mean, what a great start of our offseason here.
1:12.2	Yeah.
1:12.5	And a Hall of Famer, finding out that one future Hall of Famer and someone who's already in a Hall of Fame were big advisors during this process as he was getting ready to take the San Francisco Giants job.
1:24.3	But let's bring in Carl Ravich.
1:26.4	All aboard.
1:44.3	It's the Revy Train in Carl Ravich. All aboard, it's the Ravit train with Carl Ravich on baseball tonight. Carl Ravich, play-by-play man, on ESPN radio, on ESPN television. I don't even know what to call it anymore, Carl. Are we officially out of the Sunday Day baseball days? I was halfway through that sentence. I realized, I don't know if I can say that now. Yeah, no, I just stick with what you
1:48.7	went with. I think just baseball broadcaster ESPN, long time, forever, three decades. They'll be games.
1:55.3	I don't think they're going to be on Sundays, but we haven't seen an official announcement. So that's
1:59.7	TBD. All right. Well, you, you know,
2:04.3	we had had a conversation with you during the process about Tony Betelho. One of the things I asked
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