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Tanner Roark’s MLB career has so far been an unlikely success story filled with very few failures for a guy who just a year before he debuted in 2013 lost 17 games at the Triple-A level.
He came up as a reliever and earned an opportunity to start. As a starter, he was brilliant with a 2.85 ERA in 31 games in 2014. Now, with the Max Scherzer signing having bumped him out of the rotation, he’s back in the bullpen and making the transition look relatively easy.
Although it seems nothing can faze the 28-year-old Roark, moving back to the bullpen has not been as simple as it looks, despite his 2.