West Palm Beach, Fla. — This is how it often works in spring training. What seems like a logjam one minute suddenly becomes an open lane the next. Only to jam up again later.
And we’re not talking about the traffic patterns on Florida roads.
With Travis Wood (knee surgery) out for the season and Francisco Liriano’s spring delayed by a couple of weeks because of his late signing, it seemed a path opened, potentially, for Blaine Hardy or Chad Bell to claim the second left-hander role in the Tigers bullpen.