GOODYEAR, Ariz. – In each of the three Reds media guides that Jose Garcia is included, from 2018 to 2020, he’s listed the same: 6-foot-2, 175 pounds. The raw numbers describe someone who looks the same as he did when he signed at 19 years old in 2017 to the guy who walked into the Reds’ clubhouse last month for his first big-league camp, two months shy of his 22nd birthday.



The Garcia in Arizona right now appears bigger than the kid who hit .245 in Dayton in his first year of professional baseball in the United States.



“Same kid, right?” said Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin, laughing. Larkin has worked with Garcia since the shortstop joined the organization, including this spring.



Stuart Fairchild, whose locker is next to Garcia’s in the Reds’ big-league clubhouse this spring, was his teammate for Garcia’s first 60 games in American baseball. Fairchild, the Reds’ second-round pick out of Wake Forest in...