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Originally Posted by a700hitter
Clay is too inconsistent to trust with the ball every 5 days. IMO he'll be the odd man out of the rotation who will get spot starts.
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Whoa...strongly disagree with you there.
Clay Buchholz is probably going to inherit the mantle of staff ace from Beckett/Matsuzaka, whether it be this year or next year, if he stays healthy.
Buchholz had two bad starts and he hit the DL. No shame there. He had one bad start earlier vs. the Yankees, but he allowed only one walk. I already posted, in considerable detail, the trouble Buchholz had with umpiring his last start. Let's give the guy a chance.
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That said...
...the correlation of two factors does disturb me:
1) His trouble is in road games, and
2) If you check the Red Sox celebration photos at their parties last October, Buchholz was completely trashed.
I hope that it's not an issue, but we could have another Derek Lowe-type problem.
Career split for Clay:
Home: 4-0, 1.39 ERA
Road: 1-4, 6.89 ERA
But give the kid some time, OK?
