Clayday! Clayday! No way!?
As in Mayday, nope. Not right now. No, Clay Buchholz has been nothing but and after all of this criticism he's received in the past about inconsistency, it appears that the 25-year-old has finally found his niche.
Buchholz is 8-3 with a 2.39 earned run average. Currently he's tied for 2nd in the majors for wins including Roy Halladay and Tyler Clippard of the Washington Nationals. Other stats include allowing 63 hits in 71.2 innings pitched, 25 runs, and a WHIP of 1.284.
It's kind of hard to believe that he's technically Boston's fifth starter, however he's technically Boston's best pitcher next to Jon Lester.
Lester had another decent outing Saturday night, but left more on a sour note by walking the last three batters he faced as Daniel Bard came in with a one out, bases loaded situation. Bard was able to get out of the jam and the southpaw grabbed his seventh win on the season.
But getting back to Buchholz, who are the morons that wanted to trade this kid away?
Trade him?
Trade him!?
You've got to be kidding!?!
The Sox would simply be screwed if he was traded away, especially with the state of the starting pitching staff.
Josh Beckett on the disabled list, John Lackey not so dominant as expected, Daisuke Matsuzaka who either almost pitches a no-hitter or gives up six runs and six walks per outing, then poor Tim Wakefield who doesn't even know his role on the team anymore.
And we'll conclude on these notes:
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As in Mayday, nope. Not right now. No, Clay Buchholz has been nothing but and after all of this criticism he's received in the past about inconsistency, it appears that the 25-year-old has finally found his niche.
Buchholz is 8-3 with a 2.39 earned run average. Currently he's tied for 2nd in the majors for wins including Roy Halladay and Tyler Clippard of the Washington Nationals. Other stats include allowing 63 hits in 71.2 innings pitched, 25 runs, and a WHIP of 1.284.
It's kind of hard to believe that he's technically Boston's fifth starter, however he's technically Boston's best pitcher next to Jon Lester.
Lester had another decent outing Saturday night, but left more on a sour note by walking the last three batters he faced as Daniel Bard came in with a one out, bases loaded situation. Bard was able to get out of the jam and the southpaw grabbed his seventh win on the season.
But getting back to Buchholz, who are the morons that wanted to trade this kid away?
Trade him?
Trade him!?
You've got to be kidding!?!
The Sox would simply be screwed if he was traded away, especially with the state of the starting pitching staff.
Josh Beckett on the disabled list, John Lackey not so dominant as expected, Daisuke Matsuzaka who either almost pitches a no-hitter or gives up six runs and six walks per outing, then poor Tim Wakefield who doesn't even know his role on the team anymore.
And we'll conclude on these notes:
- Surprise! The Red Sox are three and a half games back in the American League East and tied for third with Toronto.
- Boston has the fourth best record in the majors at 33-24.
- Who the hell is Stephen Strasburg?
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