For Tigers’ Greene, harnessing fastball is key

(Photo: Robin Buckson / Detroit News) Lakeland, Fla. — You’d have to be pretty cold and uncompromising not to give Shane Greene at least a partial pass for his inconsistencies the last couple of seasons.

He’s had to transition from starter to reliever, all the while dealing with a serious vascular condition in his right shoulder and arm. He still deals with blood clotting in his arm, and his index and middle fingers on his right hand still go cold from time to time.

“They’re still not 100 percent and who knows when they will be?” Greene said Wednesday. “People ask me all the time can I tell the difference? Is it affecting me? And I have no idea. I don’t remember what it feels like to have…