SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Vitello’s skills as a recruiter helped lead Tennessee to the top of the college baseball world, and that in turn put him on the radar for the Giants’ managerial job.But even the most successful recruiters miss out on many of their top targets, and one of Vitello’s best young players in his new job is on that list from his time at Tennessee. Vitello was once hopeful he could convince Bryce Eldridge to go straight from James Madison High in Vienna, Virginia, to the campus in Knoxville. The Eldridge family has some connections to the state, and the young two-way star was graduating high school just as Vitello was putting the Volunteers in position to win a national championship.On Monday’s “Giants Talk” podcast, Vitello remembers that recruitment as “one of those you thought you were getting.”“There’s some roots there, and then also sometimes you come across a kid like him that’s so polite and is such a good kid, he gives you the warm fuzzies like it’s going to work out,” Vitello said.Eldridge ended up going pro, and it wasn’t a difficult decision. The Giants took him...