49ers exec John Lynch shares unique perspective on Giants manager Tony Vitello

In case you forgot, 49ers president of football operations and general manager John Lynch knows a thing or two about baseball.The Pro Football Hall of Famer initially was a minor-league pitcher after the then-Florida Marlins selected him in the second round of the 1992 MLB Draft out of Stanford.Lynch, with serious baseball knowledge and an understanding of high expectations paired with questionable experience, chimed in on the San Francisco Giants’ decision to hire former Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello as the team’s new manager.“Well, first of all, I’d tell you Vitello does have experience, just not at this level,” Lynch told KNBR’s “Murph and Markus” on Thursday. “I think some level of baseball is baseball; I think there’s some nuance and differences to running a big-league team right out of the University of Tennessee — sure. But I think Buster [Posey] was pretty forthright in the comments I saw. They needed to take a big swing, [and] they did. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet Tony on one occasion, and [he’s] a really impressive guy. I spent some...