The Diamondbacks are selling farm director Shaun Larkin to the key league employees because the third base coach, per Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic. He’ll exchange Tony Perezchica, who departed final month to take the third base job with the Astros.
Larkin, 45, performed for Cleveland within the minors from 2002 to 2007, topping out at Triple-A with out getting the decision to the majors. Torey Lovullo coached and managed within the minor league system of that membership throughout that point, later winding his solution to managing the Diamondbacks. Larkin ultimately pivoted to the non-playing portion of his profession, spending eight years working with the Dodgers as a coach and coordinator within the minor leagues.
The Snakes plucked him away a yr in the past, hiring him as director of participant improvement and reuniting him with Lovullo. It appears he and the group have a very good relationship, based mostly on right now’s information. “He’s all the time instructed us he needed to get on the sector,” Diamondbacks normal supervisor Mike Hazen says, per Piecoro. “This has all the time been form of the long-term plan. When T.P. left, this appeared like the correct time, the correct match, to match all the things up.”
Piecoro provides that Larkin was a candidate for a job within the Cardinals entrance workplace final month, previous to Perezchica’s departure, however Larkin ended up staying with the Diamondbacks and can now get to affix an enormous league teaching employees.
Larkin’s earlier job can be taken by Chris Slivka, who was his assistant this previous yr. “He’s received actually good management abilities and he’s received nice relationships within the clubhouse,” Hazen says of Slivka. “This was all the time the long-term plan to have Chris be ready to take over for Lark. It got here a bit faster than we thought, however he’s prepared for it. He’ll be nice.” Piecoro notes that the 31-year-old Slivka began with the D’Backs as an intern 9 years in the past, transferring to scouting and analyst roles within the years since.
