The Cardinals recently shocked the baseball world by firing manager Mike Shildt, shortly after an incredible season in which a 17-game winning streak catapulted them into the postseason for a third consecutive year. Just a few days prior to that, it seemed like the club would take the opposite path and extend him beyond 2022, the last year of his contract. Instead, with the offseason now just about a week away, their plans for a Shildt-less future are not publicly known.
Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a look at the situation, reporting that Cardinals’ president of baseball operations John Mozeliak has internal candidates like Oliver Marmol and Stubby Clapp at the top of the list. Marmol has been with the organization as a coach for a decade now, as he became the hitting coach for the Gulf Coast League Cardinals in 2011. He then went on to manage the rookie-ball Johnson City Cardinals and the Class A-Advanced Palm Beach Cardinals. He’s been with the big league club since the 2017 season, serving as first base coach and then bench coach. Clapp spent some time coaching in the Astros’ and Blue Jays’ organizations, before joining the Cardinals as the manager for the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds for the 2017 season. He came up to the major league team as first base coach for the 2019 season. The fact that they are already in the Cardinals organization would mean Mozeliak is already familiar with their abilities, making them known quantities. However, the same was true of Shildt, who had been with the Cardinals in various capacities for over a decade before becoming manager after the firing of Mike Matheny in 2018. It’s unclear if Mozeliak wants to take that same path this time around.
Frederickson also throws out a couple of wildcards, reporting that Rick Renteria and Matt Holliday have make it known they are interested in the position. Renteria would bring some managerial experience, having been the bench boss for the 2014 Cubs then the White Sox from 2017 to 2020. Holliday, on the other hand, would bring no such experience at the big leagues, although he is currently listed as a volunteer assistant coach at Oklahoma State University, where his brother Josh is the head coach. Holliday was with the Cardinals as a player from 2009 to 2016. Hiring Holliday would come as a surprise, although it would mirror the hiring of Matheny in some ways. When Matheny was hired in 2011, he was also just a few years removed from his playing days and had no previous big league coaching experience.
Why not Pujols?
same reason, why not molina
Which One?
Didn’t Molina say he’s going through 2022?
I read an article a few days ago and Carlos Beltran was mentioned as a possible candidate. Also, Yadi said he would like a Puerto Rican manager. It will definitely be interesting who will manage the Cardinals starting next season. They are many candidates that like that could be the next manager like Yadi, Matt Holliday, Oliver Marmol, Stubby Clapp, Skip Schumaker, Carlos Beltran, Joe Espada and Ron Washington. Aj Hinch and Alex Cora are back as managers, so why not Beltran could get an opportunity to manage a team.
Where did Yadi say that?
It was in an interview that he gave in Puerto Rico.
Anyone know the last manager to get fired after winning 90 games? Just curious
Joe Girardi
Interesting, thanks
Johnny Keane was Cardinals manager in 1964, and took them to the World Series. They made a late run, like this year, after management had interviewed and planned to hire Durocher, so Keane quit and joined the Yankees. Very similar Cardinals’ moves
Cards won 93 games that year.
Why not Pope Francis?
Wainwright
Why not Jim Edmonds?
Why not Sam Holbrook?
Same ole braves remember you said that. Lol. Playoffs are a crapshoot like I said.
Or Sam Elliott
Why not Matt Carpenter? He’s a fan favorite after the last few seasons
Why not David Freese?
Why not Chico Esquela or Joe Shablotnik?
As an extremely rare baseball fan of both Chicago baseball teams, I would love to see Rick Renteria get the opportunity to manage a contending team without having to endure a rebuild first. I am also among the minority in Chicago who feels that Renteria was unfairly let go after setting the table for his predecessors, Joe Maddon in 2015 and Tony La Russa last season.
There no way of ever proving this short of a window into an alternative timeline, but I fervently believe that Ricky could have at least equalled what Maddon did with the Cubs and what TLR might do with the White Sox going forward.
Why not MetsFan22?
Cause then he would throw games against the Mets
DarkSide830- No, we’re good.
Metsfan22 is busy trying to make bail
Why not Gary Payton?
Why not ray lankford?
Why not a Native American?
How about Asian American ⚾️
Al Hrabosky!
The Mad Hungarian! And the closer of my youth.
Would love to see him do his old routine before handing the ball to a reliever he brought into the game.
Why not Deshaun Watson?
Why not Pope Francis?
Why not Cardinal Richelieu?
Why not Let’s Go Brandon!?
I’ll do it, if they ask me nicely…
Why not Brett Hull?
Why not John Gruden?
Lesco Brandin. Was great league manager. ⚾️
Wanna give Alec Baldwin a shot?
I’ll see myself out.
We asked Alec Baldwin about the job, but he drew a blank, no one knew he was loaded
Why not Trump? He hasn’t bankrupted a major sport yet
People that reference politics on this site, are the biggest turds on here.
Does that include Manfred who stole the All Star game from Atlanta? Smh
we’re all kinda meming here bruh
Search USFL, Trump, & Generals.
He’s the guy who pushed for the USFL to go head to head with the NFL.
I vote Stubby Clapp for name value.
Or
Why not Mark McGuire?
Why ask why? Try bud dry!
Why not save your time and not even write this article, since contrary to the title, there is NOTHING new here to read about?
Stop arguing. In the name of world peace, I will sign on. My qualifications are immpeciable.
Next week I will be accepting applications for coaching positions. Don’t forget to include your application fee and resume. Fee will be only $25,000. this year.
Why not Tony La Russa again?
Or that old grouchy manager from The Bad News Bears who was frequently drunk? Wait, you already said LaRussa.
Why not meeeeeeee
Why not Mike Schildt? Or better yet, build a time machine and get Connie Mack.
Mark DeRosa….gets him off the network….
Why not John c Reilly he once managed a team to a rotisserie league championship
why not mozeliak?
oh wait, he does that already
just announced. 10 AM press conference tomorrow. My guess….Oliver Marmol will be named new manager
Why not Mike Shildt? If I had to guess, the not on the same page issue was probably Shildt baffled about how Moz has traded away or let go of players that seem to figure it out in their new uniforms. I’m a frustrated Cardinals fan that is tired of Moz’s “leadership”. He needs to go.
Please name me the players of which of you speak. I’m almost certain ANY team in baseball would happily have Mozeliak run there team.
Randy Arozarena is probably the best example.
if they had hired pete lacock to coach last year, they could have had lacock, clapp and shildt
Why not Manny Sanguillen?
Hey New York Mets,please take Mozeliak off our hands
please god let them hire stubby clap so i can have an excuse to say the words “stubby clap” at parties