PHOENIX
Inside a small college baseball stadium on Monday morning, as college students strolled by with backpacks and baseball men filled the bleachers, Greg Holland stepped on a pitcher’s mound wearing a pair of grey cotton shorts and a grey T-shirt, seeking to flash the ability that once made him one of baseball’s best closers.
As sweat soaked through his T-shirt, and more than 40 executives and scouts watched with radar guns, Holland threw more than 30 pitches on the field at Grand Canyon University, his first public appearance on a baseball field since undergoing Tommy John surgery near the end of the 2015 season.