SAN FRANCISCO — New Giants manager Tony Vitello has a message for the fanbase on his first day of work:

He has no idea how this is going to go.

“I wish I had an answer in my own head to be honest with you,” Vitello said. “Because as I first got here, I was like, man, there are a lot of unknowns.”

There sure are.

Vitello is the first manager in big-league history to jump directly from a college baseball dugout — he was previously the manager at the University of Tennessee — to the highest level of the game. He’s trading aluminum bats and partial scholarships for $200-million payrolls and stadiums that hold six times the people as his former home ballpark.

Perhaps this jump was unprecedented for a reason.

But, as Vitello said, “We’re in this together now, whether you like me or not.”

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