There has been a lot of speculation on why Mike Shildt got fired. “Philosophical differences” isn’t really a satisfying answer even if it might be true. So it’s caused a lot of people to speculate on what happened behind the scenes.
Until today. VEB has acquired the audio tapes of how the firing went down, and we’ve posted the full audio below. This is exactly as it transpired. We did not make any edits to the material. I’ll just let the tape recordings speak for themselves.
John Mozeliak: “Okay, end of season review. First off, I want to congratulate you all on a great season.