The Diamondbacks are selling farm director Shaun Larkin to the foremost league workers because the third base coach, per Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic. He’ll change 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 method to managing the Diamondbacks. Larkin finally 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 growth and reuniting him with Lovullo. It appears he and the group have relationship, based mostly on at the moment’s information. “He’s at all times advised us he needed to get on the sector,” Diamondbacks normal supervisor Mike Hazen says, per Piecoro. “This has at all times been form of the long-term plan. When T.P. left, this appeared like the fitting time, the fitting 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 a giant league teaching workers.
Larkin’s earlier job shall be taken by Chris Slivka, who was his assistant this previous yr. “He’s obtained actually good management expertise and he’s obtained nice relationships within the clubhouse,” Hazen says of Slivka. “This was at all times the long-term plan to have Chris be able to take over for Lark. It got here slightly 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, shifting to scouting and analyst roles within the years since.