Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell is happy for Pete Rose's reinstatement and hopes that Rose is voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The most important implication of Manfred's decision has to do with the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pursuant to Rose's placement on the permanently ineligible list, the Hall in 1991 ruled that players on that list could not be elected into the Hall of Fame.

"It would have been amazing to be able to share that with the manager that gave me my first opportunity," Larkin said.