Breaking News: San Diego Padres Manager Mike Shildt Retires

Breaking News: San Diego Padres Manager Mike Shildt Retires

Mike Schilt has retired from his position as manager of the San Diego Padres’s. He’s had two successful seasons in the regular season, 90 plus wins, playoff appearances. Padres’s bouncing the wild card round this time around, but I think that most people expected him to return. KP, you see this and you think, what? Well, I hear retired. And uh is that like retired in quotations or did he really retire? I I need a little bit more information. Okay. We do have a board we can read really quick and then we will talk to Kevin AC from the San Diego Union Tribune. We do have a quote board with a little bit more info from Mike Schult on why he did what he did. He said, “It is a decision that I thought about during the season and became at peace with over the last 10 days. I gave every fiber of my being to help achieve Peter Sidler’s vision of bringing a World Series championship to San Diego. We fell short of the ultimate goal, but I am proud of what the player, staff, and organization were able to accomplish the last two seasons. The grind of the baseball season has taken a severe toll on me mentally, physically, and emotionally. While has always been about serving others, it’s time I take care of myself and exit on my terms. Kevin AC from the San Diego Union Trabune just broke this story and he is joining us right now on FT. Kevin, we appreciate the quick hop on to the show. What is your reaction to this news when you found out about it? be careful how I how I answer that. I wasn’t entirely shocked. Look, um there’s always many layers to a story. Uh but I want to make sure that I make it clear that I believe it is 100% true the things that Mike said. Um he seemed weary. He seemed I don’t know if burnt out was something that I would have said before, but now it certainly makes sense. Um it’s a demanding job. I have never covered a baseball manager who lives the the every single game the way that Mike Schil does. And you know, working for AJ Prowler is is uh and I’m not saying that it’s not demanding to work in any organization and have one of these 30 jobs. Uh but working for AJ Prowler is is is demanding. Um there’s a lot of pressure. Uh, and so I want to make clear that like I believe that Mike is is telling the the absolute truth about this had worn him down. Um, so that’s where we’re at. I mean, this is obviously very fresh news for everybody, but when I read an article last year about how AJ Pller was pretty difficult to work with, was it a more so what you had said about Pller kind of being tough to tough to work with and invested so much in the players or was it some of the drama that was around the players or is it just a whole overarching he put everything he had into it and this This is it. I think Mike put everything he had into it and I don’t know if that’s it, right? Like there are just many layers to a story and some of them I’ve been peeling back and some of them I’ll continue to peel back. Um but I I always hesitate because I know what the narrative is out there about AJ Peller. So I always hesitate to just flat out talk about, oh yeah, AJ’s difficult to work with or because I don’t think that’s necessarily true or AJ’s hard to work for. um which I do think can be uh in the manager seat can be somewhat accurate. Um but like look what AJ’s PLAR has done with the Padres’s. Look at the success. Look at the the roster turnover and how um there there it’s a good team. Um there’s a certain way and Mike Schil came into this job with eyes wide open about that. He was a consultant and and a part-time coach basically was a deacto member of the coaching staff for two years under Bob Melvin. there. There were no real surprises about this job. So, I really do think like again, it struck me from the start and I spent 15 years covering the NFL um in between my baseball beatriting gigs and I he’s like an NFL coach who has to live one game a year or a week. Um Mike lives and just gives everything every single game and he’s so invested in the players. Um and as you know, Mike is single. Mike doesn’t have children. Mike lives baseball and I am convinced I think he’s a good man um at heart and and I’m convinced that he wants to kind of get work on his well-being. Just to confirm, he doesn’t have any sort of illness that is forcing him out. This is kind of a preemptive so he doesn’t kind of go into, you know, cardiac arrest or any sort of health issue. Yeah, he he volunteered that to me uh uh like when he talked about his health and we did have a a conversation in addition to the letter that he sent um and and he made sure that I understood that there was no pressing uh serious health issue. But I think all of us who uh put a lot into whatever the grind of your life is uh can understand that that does have a uh can have an effect on your uh stress and all that can have an effect on on your health. uh lack of sleep. Um and I think that Mike’s, you know, season uh and and a manager’s job is 12 months a year. Uh it’s not like a coach or or somebody else. It’s 12 months a year. But during that those those uh eight months, uh it was sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, work Monday through Sunday basically. And and I think that Mike was ready to take at least look, we all know what retire means. Um a lot of times, uh Mike’s 56 years old. Uh hopefully a long life ahead of him. He was I do believe whatever else came into play, Mike Schult was ready to take a a step off the very fastmoving treadmill. 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Keep your data safe and take control of your online security with Surf Shark. All right, what’s next? Where do they go? And a lot of managerial jobs open right now. Where do you kind of rank that Padres’s job in terms of, you know, appeal? I’m sure you guys have talked about it and it’s sort of fascinating, right? It’s not just a bunch of crap jobs out there. Uh you got the Orioles, the Braves, the Padres’s. I don’t know that I know the Padres’s better than anyone. I think it’s a good job. I think there’s a good core coming back. Um and I think it’s a really good job, but maybe some people have the Braves at the top, maybe people have the Orioles. U I think it’s a really good job. Uh internally, you have a few candidates. It’s a fairly inexperienced staff, but Ruben Ya, the pitching coach, has has, you know, he’s talked before about wanting to manage. Uh, obviously has done a really good job as the pitching coach. AJ Ellis is a was a confidant of Schultz and is a confidant of AJ Prowers. Uh, and, you know, I think people consider him a future manager. Uh, hey, I’m going to uh I’m gonna put it out there that Albert Pulse makes all the sense in the world. uh as well. Well, is that is that the is that the ilk that you would think AJ Per would go with in a sense of when you say Albert Post, no experience, really uncertain, but probably isn’t willing to be told what to do. If if we’re going with that narrative that I know you try to stay away from with AJ, but knowing AJ a little bit, that’s kind of his narrative. Do you see it being a veteran or do you see it being like you said the guys that have that have little experience? Here’s one thing I’d note covering AJ Peller is I never predict or say where AJ Peller is going to go, right? Like he hired Jace Tingler u who I believe could be a really good manager but was not going to be in 2020 uh having the experience level that he had at that time. Then he hired Bob Melvin who everyone was like, “Oh man, Bob Melvin’s the best and he’s got all this experience.” Um, and you got Mike M, he hires Mike Schill. Um, someone like Albert Puhol would do his research. And one thing I want to make clear that a lot of the narrative about AJ Prowler is false and and is in that AJ is not controlling. AJ is relentless in his um work. He is um and he’s even involved there to also, but he does. The manager here makes out his lineup. AJ Prowler might be like, “Hey, what do you think?” And then the next day he might be like, “Well, hey, let’s talk about that again.” But he is not telling the manager where to put someone or who to play. The manager has probably, from my understanding, I only cover one team. I talked to a lot of people, people that were here, people that uh come here from other places. The manager of the Padres’s has more autonomy than most. Okay, that’s interesting. Um, question for you. Going back to narratives are narratives. Yeah, exactly. I get it. And obviously everything’s different from what it was even 10 years ago, right? When we say, “Oh, manager has more autonomy.” Like the manager with the most autonomy now compared to 10 years ago is a major major difference. Front office is a much more of an impact. So keep that in mind for the audience for the entire sport. Question for you on Chiltz. When he says retirement, does that mean he’s done from baseball? Like to me, retirement means I’m done versus stepping down. So, do you get the I don’t know. Do you get the inkling that like he’ll come back to baseball at some point? I mean, Ty Fran Coner retired for what five minutes and then he came back. Yeah. That’s why I say right, we all know what retire often means. And I don’t want to speak for Mike and I think Mike has made it very clear that for now he needs to get away from the grind. Um, do I believe that a man who loves and here’s the only I shouldn’t say the only here was the shocking part of this. Mike Schill loves baseball. He loves players. He loves building relationships and he’s a really good um you he knows the game. So that made it shocking like wow, Mike is walking away. So do I think that we’re not ever going to hear from Mike Schult in some capacity uh in in Major League Baseball uh again? No. I I I believe Mike Schil will be back working somewhere in some capacity again. But for now, I I take him at face value uh that he’s retiring and that he needs to to take care of himself. I mean, I’m aware of some of the plans that he has coming up uh in terms of his personal life that, you know, hasn’t been a whole lot of personal life uh for Mike Schil uh as as a manager.

Breaking news out of San Diego — Padres manager Mike Shildt has announced his retirement. Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune, who broke the story, joins Kevin Pillar, Erik Kratz, and Scott Braun to discuss what led to the decision and what’s next for the San Diego Padres.

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