Former Cardinals manager appreciates opportunity to work with Padres major leaguers and minor leaguers
He remembers his time as a high school coach and a part-time college coach and a private instructor and a scout and then how he spent eight years riding the buses in the New York Penn League and the Appalachian League.
“I was in a tough place,” he said. “It was my dream job, and I was good at it. And it was just gone.” Shildt quickly had to make the choice to move on when, despite three postseason appearances in three years, he was fired by the Cardinals following the 2021 season. And now he is in his second year with the Padres — Year 2 of making a decision to be happy where he is, content to be coaching baseball and be part of an organization that has a chance to win a lot.
His staff is rich with former major league managers in third base coach Matt Williams and Bryan Price, a Senior Advisor to the Major League staff. There are also at least a couple guys considered future managers in associate manager Ryan Christenson and offensive coordinator/bench coach Ryan Flaherty.
“He cares about the players,” center fielder Trent Grisham said. “I think he cares about humans in general. It’s really, really cool to see that in a person, especially in this place. Sometimes it’s a hostile environment, professional sports. We’re here to compete and win. But to see a presence like that, somebody that really cares for people wants to help people, it’s really cool.
Shildt only reluctantly addresses the split. It is painful and, he knows, potentially destructive, to publicly work through questions posed to him recently. He did so only when presented with instances of what has been said by some around the league about why the Cardinals justified the split. Said infielder Jake Cronenworth: “He’s a really, really good human. He’s open to talk about whatever —life, baseball. I’m glad we have him.”
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