CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Mike Fiers didn't pitch until the Detroit Tigers' sixth Grapefruit League game because pitching coach Chris Bosio wasn't sure he was ready.
When he walked the Philadelphia Phillies' lead-off man on four pitches in the first inning Tuesday, Bosio looked prescient.
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But Fiers, one of the Tigers' early winter free-agent acquisitions, quickly settled in to pitch two scoreless innings over 24 largely uneventful pitches in his spring debut.