The Diamondbacks are selling farm director Shaun Larkin to the most important league workers because the third base coach, per Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic. He’ll substitute 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 strategy 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 12 months in the past, hiring him as director of participant growth and reuniting him with Lovullo. It appears he and the group have relationship, primarily based on immediately’s information. “He’s all the time informed us he wished to get on the sector,” Diamondbacks basic supervisor Mike Hazen says, per Piecoro. “This has all the time been type of the long-term plan. When T.P. left, this appeared like the correct time, the correct match, to match every little thing 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 workers.
Larkin’s earlier job might be taken by Chris Slivka, who was his assistant this previous 12 months. “He’s acquired actually good management abilities and he’s acquired nice relationships within the clubhouse,” Hazen says of Slivka. “This was all the time the long-term plan to have Chris be able to take over for Lark. It got here somewhat 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.
