Not only is he a respected 12-year MLB veteran who reached heights few of his peers matched, Holland has still generated swinging strikes at a solid rate in recent seasons.
The Rangers announced this afternoon they’ve designated reliever Greg Holland for assignment.
The 36-year-old Holland joined the Rangers on a minor-league deal and made a strong impression in camp, firing five shutout innings with four hits, one walk and six strikeouts.
Holland posted a 4.85 ERA in 55 2/3 frames last season.
Unlike some teams, the KC Royals don’t mind recycling players. Only a year ago, they brought back former star closer Wade Davis to join Greg Holland, another of their ex-bullpen aces who was returning for a second straight Kansas City season after an absence of several years.
Although their starting rotation disappointed again in 2021, the back of the bullpen gave the KC Royals little to complain about. A season after leading
Offseason signings of broken pitchers is something the KC Royals do. Two winters ago, they brought back Greg Holland, their former star closer, and also signed Trevor Rosenthal, KC manager Mike Matheny’s closer for a time in St.
Reinventing the past’s biggest strength The backbone of the most recently successful Royals teams is well known as the bullpen. While the three-headed monster of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland known as “HDH” was the most notable part of the recipe for success, there were several forgotten arms behind them that also deserve credit.
Ahead of MLB free agency beginning in less than a week, the Kansas City Royals are busy with shaping their roster. The quartet of relief pitchers Wade Davis, Jesse Hahn, Greg Holland and Ervin Santana is set to hit the open market and won't be on the club's 40-man roster this winter.
The KC Royals made a roster move Thursday that, but for the previous night’s embarrassing and headline-stealing loss in Baltimore, would have drawn more attention than a smattering of social media complaints suggests it did.
Just not this year For those of you who weren’t Kansas City Royals fans yet in 2014, of if you were too young to really get it, getting the game to the bullpen was a sigh of relief.
That one hurt...bad The Royals were walked-off by New York, 6-5, on Wednesday, as Greg Holland blew his fourth save of the season. After a nail-biting finish on Tuesday night, Kansas City looked to pounce on Yankees starter Michael King in the early going.
Holland was largely a great reliever with the Royals from 2010-15, but he underwent Tommy John surgery in the last of those seasons and missed the team’s World Series run.
Kansas City Royals veteran reliever Greg Holland isn't going anywhere.
Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports His last two seasons have been up and down Before the days of HDH and an impenetrable Royals bullpen that would carry them to back-to-back World Series’, there was Greg Holland.
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