James Shields OWES us

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Originally Posted by okcchief

A game like last night also pains me to think about how ridiculous this team could have been without the Hochaever injury. We've missed the quality long relief guy.

Things might have been totally different, and not necessarily in a good way. When the Royals went to spring training they still considered Wade Davis a candidate for the starting rotation. There's no reason to think he'd have done any better as a starter this year than he did last year. Instead of HDH we'd have had HHH (which does have a nice ring to it).

However, if they bring Hochevar back next year as a long reliever and bring back HDH, you can't ask for a better bullpen than that.