Rafael Devers situation puts Tony Vitello’s leadership to test – New York Post

SAN FRANCISCO — Outside the visitors’ clubhouse in Miami this past Sunday, in front of the temporary backdrop the Giants’ PR department hauls with them on the road, I was struck by a sense of déjà vu. There was Tony Vitello, giving almost an identical answer to a similar question I had asked a little over a month earlier. How, as a first-year manager, would he hold to account one of his highly paid, highly prideful Giants veteran leader’s very publicly misbehaving? Giants manager Tony Vitello and Rafael Devers discussed Sunday’s incident on the flight back from Miami. Getty Images What Rafael Devers did in the ninth inning of the loss to the Marlins was a little different than Willy Adames’ embarrassing act in Los Angeles. You can debate the merits for which was worse: Paying more attention to a conversation with Mookie Betts than the number of outs, or trying to shoo away a teammate and at least giving the perception of undermining his manager. In neither case did it set the example a team should want from two of its most important players, whose performance has earned them no benefit of the doubt, to boot. Both times, Vitello
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