Barry Larkin

CINCINNATI — Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin is not a candidate to become the Cincinnati Reds manager. President of Baseball Operations Dick Williams said Tuesday that Larkin prefers to remain in his current role of helping develop minor leaguers. A Cincinnati native, Larkin spent his entire 19-year big league career with the Reds. Manager Bryan Price, who was fired on April 19 along with pitching coach Mack Jenkins after a 3-15 start.

This wasn’t one of those bottom-of-the-ninth, two outs, bases loaded, Game 7 moments we all dreamed about when we were kids. It was much less glamorous than that. In fact, it was a fairly meaningless late September at-bat of my career. But it’s one I’ll remember forever. It was the bottom of the eighth inning in the last game of the 1998 season. The Reds weren’t going to the playoffs, so we were six outs away from going home for the winter.