Tigers' Rony Garcia: Being used as reliever this spring

Garcia is working as a reliever this spring, Evan Woodbery of MLive.com reports.

The Tigers aren't ruling out a return to starting for Garcia at some point down the line, but the plan for now is for him to be used as a multi-inning reliever. "His best route to this team will be in that bridge role of being stretched out to two and three innings," manager A.J. Hinch said. Garcia held a 4.41 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 48:13 K:BB over 51 innings spread between eight starts and eight relief appearances for Detroit last season.