Cal Ripken, Jr. has the "itch" to return to Major League Baseball, possibly as a manager.
Ripken told Rich Eisen of the NFL Network that he would be open to managing.
The legendary Baltimore Oriole has spent the past 12 years running his company, Ripken Baseball Inc., since retiring as a player after the 2001 season. He also has worked as an analyst for TBS Sports during the postseason.
"I have thought about how cool it would be to manage," Ripken said. "And even Donny Mattingly got me thinking about this a little bit more. He said there's nothing like being a player, and coaching is pretty good because you help other people do what it is that they do.
"But managing is the closest thing to being a player, and I've always thought that anyway, internally. Now I'm starting to think about that a little bit more."
Via ESPN