Padres manager has had time to prepare for Wednesday's 'atypical' opener against the Dodgers in South Korea
In 2018, Mike Shildt became a Major League Baseball manager in a way that felt more like a thrash-metal concert than a soothing orchestra performance. It was not ceremonious. It was chaotic. It was not stately. It was stunning. The first shot at manning the top dugout step for Shildt, a baseball lifer, plopped onto his lap midway through the 2018 season, when the Cardinals canned Mike Matheny. On a Saturday, Shildt was a bench coach in the shadows.
'There's been a lot of healing taking place since the actual event,' Shildt said. 'I try not to live too much in the past, you know? But after 18 years of dedicated service and a lot of emotion and good work that took place, I kind of felt like I got cut off at the knees. 'But things happen for a reason. Every day I get further away from it, I recognize more and more that things happen for a reason.
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