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My favorite manager Mike Shildt has resigned from San Diego. I am not suprised because of the vast different operating styles between him and his boss A J Preller. Preller is a disrupter. Decimates the farm system in trades to pieces to keep the major league team afload. Has had 6 managers in 12 years. Shildt on the other hand seems to be more of a long range thinker and seemed to utilize the farm system. He is good with players in general and particularly with young players.
Sooner, heads up that there is a bunch of Shildt talk already on the “Other Managerial Openings” thread.
Mike might be too old school to accept that ownership’s business model is what it is and it, rather than a drive to win, will dictate the organization’s management of its pool of talent. The manager has to work within that model.
I watched that Bernie video at home last night. One thing Bernie said that I agree with is that in today’s game the manager is most definitely not the boss. A lot of decisions come from upstairs and managers like Shildt may have a hard time accepting that.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/10/latest-on-mike-shildts-resignation-as-padres-manager.html
Much better state of things all shildt.
You’re probably aware that Bernie is from Baltimore and was once primarily a expert NFL guy who covered the Colts, Cowboys and Rams before switching over to primarily covering baseball for the StL. newspaper when the Rams left town. I used to run into him on occasion at some local basketball courts when he first arrived in StL. and lived nearby in our old neighborhood at a time when we still lived in the city. I conversed with him about local sports at both the professional and amateur level and he seemed like an affable guy.
The thing is and this is no excuse. Sometimes when people who have never had the ability to control something get that power. They say and do things that they shouldn’t say or do. Shildt is the perfect example of someone it appears who had control and just used it however he wanted to and didn’t care much about what the people under him thought or felt sans the players. He even admitted that he would say hard things to coaches and players and I guess support staff that was taken to heart. I mean I guess he took ownership in at least his part.
San Diego knowing what they knew hired him regardless. Maybe he threw shade on his time in STL by taking a lesser role with the padres and came out as a good guy to manage. He likely is better as an instructor and I think he has come to realize that he was more of an issue and just wants to be happy and healthy in a secondary role.
Give Shildt one year at home with the wifey…..and she with him…..and he’ll be back in baseball by 2027. But not as a manager. That ship has sailed for Shildt.
Apparently, Schildt was not much a pleasure to work for or with. It seems Mo took a lot of unnecessary heat when he fired him for wrapping it all up in ‘philosophical differences’.
It looks like Shildt is tough to work for among the coaches. He seems to be quick tempered as well. I understand a little more now why the Cardinals moved on from him. Still he gets results, but there are times where no matter how good things are, people (coaches in this case) don’t like a culture where a lot of criticism comes down, and little positive recognition.
Those who bought the “retirement” line missed the point. The stress of MLB managing isn’t Shildt’s cup of tea. He wants to teach. So he went home to the Orioles, where he began in baseball. Good for him!
2 #orioles hirings, per a source. Mike Shildt will be upper level coordinator of instruction, and Samuel Vega will be lower level coordinator of instruction.
— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) November 26, 2025
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