<p>SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Turning things around is old stuff for pitcher Jeremy Guthrie.</p><p>Take his college time, for example, when after his freshman year he left Brigham Young University to be a missionary in Spain for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</p><p>"I was a missionary for my church so I spent two years away from school, away from baseball, dedicated to that," Guthrie said. "I didn't even take a glove, so from 19 to 21, I didn't throw a baseball, didn't do a push-up, or a shoulder exercise, or even a sprint for that matter."</p><p>Even so, he returned to the United States and enrolled at Stanford University to study sociology and still had the ability to play baseball at an All-America level.</p><p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130219&content_id=41796514&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb">Keep reading...</a></p>