The Red Sox and Clay Buchholz have agreed to a four-year contract extension, worth approximately $30 million. A formal announcement will be made later today.
The contract -- a similar arrangement to the one the team made with Jon Lester in 2009 -- buys out Buchholz's three arbitration-eligible years and one year of free agency (2012-15). It also has options for 2016 and 2017.
Buchholz turns 27 this August.
8 comments:
Goddamnit.
Whenever I see "Clay Buchholz" and "similar to. . . Jon Lester", I die a little inside. One is on the shortlist of the top pitchers in baseball. The other is an overrated man with a scary adam's apple.
The other is an overrated man with a scary adam's apple.
Who had the best ERA+ in MLB last year.
And who, even with his horrific 2008 season, has a career 120 ERA+, not too far behind Lester's 129.
I hate to be the doomsday prophet, but it's utterly unsustainable. He doesn't K enough guys or limit walks well enough or get enough GBs.
And vis a vis your response on the gamethread--right at the beginning--13 ABs is in no way an indicative SS for Ells vs. Sabathia.
We shall see.
fuck yeah. more run(s) pls ....
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