Mike Shildt’s retirement lasted about as long as a Padres lead in the ninth inning during the dark years, brief, chaotic, and over before anyone had time to process it. Barely two months removed from saying he wanted to “spend more time with family,” Shildt has officially accepted a job… on the exact opposite side of the country.
The Baltimore Orioles have hired the former Padres skipper as their new upper-level coordinator of instruction, according to Roch Kubatko, with Samuel Vega joining the staff as the lower-level coordinator. And while Baltimore fans are simply digesting another quiet-but-savvy organizational hire, Padres fans are — probably and understandably — rolling their eyes into another dimension.