Open or shut? Pitchers make transition
Published 3/8/2008 by Tom Singer at Major League Baseball News
Occasionally, starters successfully morph into closers. Rarely is this switch reversible. But it has been done recently, offering encouragement to the Cubs' Ryan Dempster and the Phillies' Brett Myers, who are trying to once again be starters.
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