Mike Matheny is no longer manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and that is a good thing. Matheny had a lot of things that annoyed me, but my number one annoyance was the fact that he didn’t improve despite gaining more experience. He didn’t use the information he had learned to become a better manager. He was stubborn and seemingly took no lessons from his failures.
Now the question is: can Mike Shildt learn from his failures? Can Mike Shildt improve as a major league manager with more experience? I am aware that he has been a minor league manager for hundreds of games, but managing the minors is an entirely different thing from managing the majors.