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I have no idea why.  It's been done 100's of times in baseball history, midseason.
Johan Santana's 2003 ... he relieved the first half, was put into the rotation on July 11, and went 8-0 in August and September.
By the way, here are his game logs from 2003.  He was a 1.0, 2.0 inning reliever, then spot-started a game in May and went 5.0 innings right out of the gate, 76 pitches.  We've talked about that, right, that RP's can go 60, 70 pitches on zero notice?
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But Lloyd, on this particular player, sees exactly what Dr. D sees.  That's not everything, but it is something.  McClendon is the incoming manager who sees everything from fresh perspective.  It smacks of McClendon (nicely) opposing the org consensus on Wilhelmsen.  I'll take Lloyd on this one.
Even if they don't want to "stretch Wilhelmsen out," they can certainly spot-start him, 5.0 innings, three or four times this year.  That's just baseball history talking, recent history at that.