The Cincinnati Reds wasted little time in beginning their exhaustive managerial search once the regular season ended. After interviews with a handful of internal candidates - including interim manager Jim Riggleman and former Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell - the club immediately reached out to some half-dozen other candidates from outside the organization, cementing that regardless of whether their next hire pans out, you won’t be able to blame them for a lack of thorough searching.
On Wednesday, we learned from The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal that a trio of names had risen to the top of the team’s wish-list, and are now ‘finalists’ or ‘frontrunners for the position’ or ‘getting second interviews’ or ‘might get a Christmas card from the Reds this December,’ or however you’d like to categorize it.