The Padres are preparing for a wild season, and that probably means utilizing their pitching staff in unique ways.
The combination of a 60-game schedule essentially making the entire season a pennant race, the potential for even minor injuries to cause relatively long absences, the possibility of positive COVID-19 tests and the fact pitchers had 3½ months off and then just three weeks to get ready make the mutations endless.
Starters as relievers, relievers as starters, cats and dogs living together.
To that end, left-hander Joey Lucchesi worked during the break between the end of spring training and start of summer camp in the event he ends up making the first relief appearances of his career.