Greg Holland’s Kansas City Royals tenure needs little introduction. Drafted in the 10th round of Dayton Moore’s inaugural draft in 2007, Holland made his big league debut in 2010. Over the next four years, Holland was arguably the second-best reliever in baseball. A frayed UCL in his elbow sent him under the knife for Tommy John surgery in September 2015. This prompted the Royals to release him in the offseason, thus ending his Royals career—or so we thought.
Holland missed the 2016 season, but spent the last three years bouncing around in the National League in search of his pre-TJS form with varying success.