With quality starting pitching increasingly hard to find these days, teams have turned to the bullpen for help. Relievers carry a much heavier workload now than they did even 10 years ago, that's for sure, but it's more than that. Teams are turning relievers -- good relievers -- into starting pitchers. The Rangers did this way back in the day with C.J. Wilson. More recently it has been done successfully with Garrett Crochet , Clay Holmes , Michael King , Zack Littell , Michael Lorenzen , Seth Lugo , and Jeffrey Springs .

This is not an entirely new concept, of course. Teams have stretched relievers out in spring training for decades because why not? Spring training is the time to try new things and it's much easier to go from starter to reliever at the end of camp than the

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