There Is A God: Clay Buchholz Is Going To The Bullpen
WOW! What a time to be a Red Sox fan! We’ve got David Ortiz putting on the greatest final season in baseball history, Jackie Bradley Jr. going half way to Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Hanley Ramirez has zero errors at first base, Xander Bogaerts is the best hitter in the American League, Craig Kimbrel hasn’t given up a run in over a month, and CLAY BUCHHOLZ IS NO LONGER IN THE RED SOX ROTATION! Hooooooooly SHIT!
I wrote about it at length this morning, explaining why Buchholz to the bullpen isn’t exactly a great idea. But it’s not even his work in the actual games that the Red Sox will be monitoring at this point. I’m sure what they’re going to do now is basically stash him on the active roster, because he opened his mouth and said he was 100% healthy, so they couldn’t put him on the disabled list, and then he’ll get his work in on the side to try to figure things out. And I say “figure things out” in air quotes, because there’s nothing to figure out. This is who he is. That’s what we’ve figured out. And we figured it out six friggin’ years ago.
So, because the Red Sox don’t have the balls to designate him for assignment, someone who is more capable of pitching out of the bullpen is temporarily out of a job. And the only reason that it’s temporary is because the bullpen experiment is not going to work out. This 2016 Red Sox team is a serious playoff contender, and Dave Dombrowski is not going to fuck around and work with a 24-man roster just so that he can accommodate a player who can’t help this team win a championship. Tick tock.