Expect to See More Two-Way Threats in Baseball

GOODYEAR, Ariz.—Michael Lorenzen spent his first four seasons with the Cincinnati Reds begging for the possibility to play within the outfield on days the group didn’t use him as a pitcher. He implored his supervisor. When that failed, he escalated his plea to the front-office executives. Nothing satisfied them, and Lorenzen thinks he knows why: fear of attempting something new.