Skip Schumaker

I was a first base coach for a rookie manager.

And then I was a bench coach again for another rookie manager in St.

Louis.

So that's how a lot of guys I've been around.

So to have this experience was unique, but I'm very, very grateful for it.

Yeah, of course.

You know, the front office and I have talked the last week or so since I got this job and trying to figure out and navigate exactly what we want to do.

And we've had conversations with some staff members already and trying to figure out exactly the route we want to go.

Yeah, all really good guys, pros in there, and looking forward to continuing those conversations.

It's tricky right now, obviously, because we're in those conversations, involved in those conversations.

But, yeah, I expect to have a couple of those guys back for sure.

And why'd you choose 55?

Any reason?

We were just actually talking about that.

So a couple things.

Oral Hershiser, when I was a young kid, I met him, my dad and I met him at a, I don't want to say a bar, but it was like a restaurant.

And he was gracious enough to, after he was done eating, my dad said, okay, go up and ask for an autograph.

I did, I had a glove that had Oral Hershiser autograph in there, you know, like it was not his real one, but like a printed one.

Oral picked me up, wrote to a future Dodger, him and Tommy Lasorda actually to a future Dodger, Oral Hershiser and Tommy Lasorda.

I have those in my office back at home.