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Skip Schumaker didn’t plan on being here.
At the start of October, Schumaker, who spent 2022 as the Cardinals’ bench coach, thought his fall would be filled with that club making a long playoff run that would end with a World Series win. Instead, Schumaker’s season ended in a single weekend at the beginning of the month, after the lower-seeded Phillies defeated the Cards in the Wild Card Series.
But while that upset meant that St. Louis’ season came to an abrupt and early conclusion, it also meant that general manager Kim Ng and the Marlins could begin to contact Schumaker about the club’s managerial vacancy. A little less than a month after Schumaker’s first conversation with Ng in San Diego, the 42-year-old California native was introduced as the 16th manager in Marlins history in an introductory press conference at loanDepot park on Thursday.
“It was clear to me that his vision, attitude, work ethic and attention to detail embody his desire to develop a [winning] culture,” Ng said.
An 11-year MLB veteran, Schumaker spent eight years playing for the Cardinals, with whom he won a World Series and became a fan favorite. He also played for the 2006 World Series-winning Cards, but he was not on the postseason roster that year.
After retiring in 2015, Schumaker became a fast riser in the front-office and coaching ranks. He served as an assistant to baseball operations and player development for the Padres from ’16-17, then joined the field staff as the first-base coach (’18-19) and associate manager (’20-21) before becoming St. Louis’ bench coach in 2022.
While Schumaker is a first-time manager, he said that his diverse background as a player and coach allowed him to pick up tips from some of the game’s best.
“As a bench player, you get to watch the game from a different perspective and watch different managers go about their business,” Schumaker said. “No one was more prepared than Tony La Russa, and I learned a lot from him. Don Mattingly was amazing. I loved him in 2013 [with the Dodgers] when we went on our crazy run. Last year, I got to see how [Cardinals manager Oliver] Marmol interacted with his coaching staff.
“The main thing with all of them is they built a really good staff around them and they knew what winning looked like.”
Ironically enough, Schumaker will be taking over in Miami after Mattingly, the franchise’s longest-tenured and winningest skipper, and the club mutually parted ways at the end of the regular season.
Despite the Marlins’ 69-93 record last season, Schumaker is inheriting a team that has a young nucleus of talent, including three All-Stars (Jazz Chisholm Jr., Garrett Cooper and Sandy Alcantara) along with a glut of quality pitchers. Alcantara might be the player Schumaker is most excited to coach, as the ace was drafted by the Cardinals in 2013 before being traded to the Marlins in 2017.
“Couldn’t be more excited to see Sandy every fifth day on this side,” Schumaker said.
As a long-time member of the Cardinals, Schumaker has plenty of experience around a franchise that is considered the gold standard in building a culture. And while he admitted that every franchise is different, Schumaker laid out his foundation for how he’s hoping to get the Marlins back to winning ways.
“People ask all the time what culture means and what the Cardinals have that is different from everyone else,” he said. “Communication is No. 1; that has to be aligned with the same message for everyone. Accountability is a must. As soon as a player sees you not be accountable, they’ll walk all over you.
“Preparation, too. Our staff will be as prepared as anyone during the game. If you don’t have all three of those, then you’re not going to win.”