The Kansas City Royals have removed Greg Holland from ninth inning duties and replaced him with Wade Davis.

Holland is nursing a sore elbow, leading Ned Yost to announce Tuesday that Davis will close for the remainder of the regular season and playoffs.

"You know what you've got with Wade," Yost said. "With Holly you don't know from one day to the next how his elbow is going to respond, if it's going to be tight or sore or stiff.

"You've got to pretty much know what you're going to put out there, especially when you get in the playoffs," he added. "It's just decisions we have to make, but they are not easy decisions, trust me. But we just have other options."

Holland's velocity had dipped from the mid-90s in terms of of miles per hour to the upper 80s and low 90s.