James Shields, come home (as an Opener!)

Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsLook we have a day game and a dinosaur out on the field right now, so I’ll keep this brief. Ken Rosenthal is out here stumping for James Shields, and he’s dead-on to say this veteran should have a job right now as likely one of the best 150 starters in baseball.

The best-record-in-baseball Rays recently sent away Wilmer Font to the Mets and saw Hunter Wood sidelined with a shoulder problem. They could use another competitive couple-innings pitcher to slot in to the mix.

Much of the value of being James Shields is wrapped up in the ability to soak up 200 innings as a workhorse, but the results aren’t there anymore late in games for the 37-year old veteran, as we saw…