(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
Lakeland, Fla. — When a musician first sits down with a particularly difficult piece of music, he or she doesn't try to learn it all at once. They break it down, measure by measure, note by note if the passage is uncommonly fast or tricky.
It would be overwhelming to learn it any other way.
Michael Fulmer is re-learning how to pitch after knee surgery much the same way — step by step, literally from the head on down.
"He was so out of whack coming into spring training," Tigers pitching coach Rick Anderson said.