There’s a saying with pitching prospects, usually with young starter/reliever in-betweeners who for one reason or another haven’t had things click, about when to pull the trigger and convert a starter into a reliever. “You let ‘em start until they show you they can’t.” Let them exhaust any possibility of sticking as a starter, and use the bullpen as a nice fallback plan.
After a rough 2018, we might be approaching that point with Brett Martin.
The Rangers’ lefty entered the year trying to reverse a trend of spotty health dating back a few seasons.