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Mike Shildt Announces Retirement from San Diego Padres
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We heard that Mike Schilt is retiring as the manager of the San Diego Padres.
00:05
News was broken by Kevin A.C. of the San Diego Union-Tribune,
00:08
and I want to read you this whole letter from Mike Schilt,
00:12
and this was published by Kevin A.C.
00:14
It is with a heavy but full heart that I'm announcing my retirement
00:17
from managing the San Diego Padres.
00:19
It's a decision that I thought about during the season
00:21
and became at peace with over the last 10 days.
00:24
He announced his retirement on October 13th.
00:27
I gave every fiber of my being to help achieve Peter Seidler's vision
00:31
of bringing a World Series championship to San Diego.
00:34
Fell short of the ultimate goal, but I'm proud of what the players, staff,
00:36
and organization were able to accomplish the last two seasons.
00:39
The grind of the baseball season has taken a severe toll on me,
00:43
mentally, physically, and emotionally.
00:45
While it has always been about serving others,
00:47
it's time I take care of myself and exit on my terms.
00:50
Extremely appreciative to the Padres, Peter Seidler, the Seidler family,
00:53
Eric Grupner, A.J. Preller, and staff for the trust and confidence to lead this team.
00:57
I'm confident I left things in a better place.
01:00
And then he keeps on going there.
01:02
34 years of coaching and managing for Mike Schilt at the professional level.
01:07
I spent the last two years as the skipper of the San Diego Padres.
01:11
This guy was a very good manager in St. Louis.
01:15
He was, I thought, wrongly let go.
01:18
I thought there was zero point for St. Louis to move on from Mike Schilt when they did.
01:22
Mike Schilt was a heck of a manager in San Diego.
01:25
Good for him for just kind of realizing the priorities over his life right now
01:29
and getting out right now.
01:31
He would have had a job moving forward.
01:33
There's no doubt in my mind about that.
01:36
I really don't think this had anything to do with the Padres falling short
01:40
and losing in the wild card round.
01:42
I think this is just baseball's hard.
01:45
162 and being there for 30 spring training games is really hard.
01:49
And Mike Schilt was ready to move on.
01:50
Yeah, you know, I don't think there's anything you could point to in particular
01:55
that, you know, he could have done substantially better.
01:58
Maybe bunts a little bit more than I like.
01:59
But, you know, like I think this really was just a, he's had a really long professional career.
02:05
And then this may have been the job that may have been best for him
02:08
when he was really just trying to like get going in his professional,
02:13
maybe in his managerial career, even a few years ago.
02:15
Like, this is an exhausting gig, I'd imagine, in San Diego where it's win now always.
02:22
And I don't like, I won't pretend to know AJ Preller,
02:25
but I think it's quite visible through the transactions that there's a level of urgency.
02:32
And I think especially the last two years where he knows, like, you know, he's got to do something.
02:39
There's the financial urgency side of it as well because of how much this team invests in success,
02:43
but also then the trade capital urgency and how much they've always been in win now mode
02:47
that I imagine has to seep down to the manager's office, to the clubhouse and beyond.
02:53
And if you're a guy that already is like, man, I'm feeling the grind after all these years.
02:58
I can't imagine how exhausting that San Diego gig must have been this year
03:02
and just to the last couple of years.
03:04
That's as, I think, stressful as an environment as there probably is in terms of,
03:08
we got to do it now and we haven't been able to.
03:11
Which is funny because it's probably the most stressful job in San Diego, California.
03:14
That place is paradise and you can make stress out of paradise.
03:18
There's no doubt about that.
03:19
It is a unique situation in Major League Baseball because they're always hyper-competitive.
03:27
They haven't reached the mountaintop, but they pursue that mountaintop every year.
03:33
And there's some roster turnover, right?
03:34
There's some continuity.
03:35
I mean, Manny Machado has been there.
03:36
We know Fernando Tatis has been there and will continue to be there.
03:40
There are some pitchers that have been there and going anywhere anytime soon.
03:43
Right.
03:44
Like, you know, there are guys, there are building blocks.
03:46
But when the complementary pieces change all the time like this, that has to increase the stress level there.
03:55
And I just wonder, you know, San Diego, like, what do they do moving forward?
04:00
Do they want someone like Bruce Bochy to come in?
04:02
And this is like their humongous push towards a World Series.
04:07
Bruce wants a third or a, you know, third different team.
04:10
He wants to got a third different team to a World Series championship.
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Or do they go with somebody like Hundley, who is a San Diego guy who is interviewing for this managerial opening in San Francisco right now?
04:21
Do they go with someone younger?
04:23
Do they elevate somebody like Ruben Niebla?
04:25
I don't know, man.
04:26
It's interesting.
04:28
And I have no idea the direction that San Diego wants to go.
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