Red Sox Claim Taylor Buchholz Off Waivers From Blue Jays
by Ben Buchanan on Nov 15, 2010 2:35 PM EST
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PrintThe Red Sox announced today that they have claimed right-handed reliever Taylor Buchholz off of waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays.
Buchholz, who is in no way related to Clay, broke into the league as a starter with the Rockies before putting up a very impressive campaign as a reliever in 2008, sporting a 2.17 ERA with 56 strikeouts and just 18 walks. He missed all of 2009 after Tommy John Surgery, though, and was less impressive in his return, struggling in 21 minor league outings before putting up a 3.75 ERA in limited innings split between the Rockies and the Blue Jays.
This seems like a great move for the Red Sox. While Buchholz is arbitration eligible and thus not as cheap as some other options might have been (still, only $1 million or so), he was impressive before his Tommy John Surgery, and has only had a very short time to recover from it. If an offseason of throwing and conditioning can return his arm close to his previous form, he could be a very valuable asset indeed.
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Good move
This guy can help the pen
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very cool
I love these potentially high-impact arms they’re picking up to see if they can work with them.
I just hope these don’t preclude signing one good, known-quantity reliever.
I don't think they will. I can't imagine this is what Theo meant by adding a reliever or two.
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by Ben Buchanan on Nov 15, 2010 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
I'm sure he considers it one of them, but he'll have more to come.
In the meantime, I’m high-fiving Sox fans over this move.
I hope these acquisitions ARE a sign of a good, known-quantity reliever
Hopefully they are working on the back end of the pen (Buc, Miller, etc.) with the intention that they can use the saved money to make a splash with an impact arm (ex: Putz) to pair with Bard and Papelbon.
Let's hope this works better than the last time we added a duplicate name to the staff
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I can't wait to see Clay Buchholz get relieved by Tay' Buchholz.
It’s like RamRamx2 but even better.
Sorta reminds me of...
The Sox battery a couple years ago of Javier Lopez and Javier (Javy) Lopez!
This is a very typical Red Sox move,
They add a bullpen arm at minimal cost while the guy’s stock is low. If T. Buchholz pitches well, they have a quality righty for under $1M, if he doesn’t they have lost very little on this gamble. I like it a lot. I am much happier to see them make ten moves like this to fix the pen than to sign one Kevin Gregg at the same cost.
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Second that Matt.
Both T. Buchholz and Andrew Miller will need to mark March 28, 2011 on their calendars. This is the last day that a team can request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2011 salary. (Only 45 days’ termination pay is due.) CBA, Article IX (B).
The baseball calendar year is based on 172 days. So if T-Buc gets $1mil in arb, 45 days term. pay will egual $262k. If Miller gets $2mil in arb, 45 days term pay is $523k. This is very cheap to get a good look at a low risk/high reward player before keeping him for the year.
Let’s hope they both come into camp in shape and stay for the season. T-Buc also has slight reverse career splits vs lefties.
Again, Curt Young gets a another chance to work his magic with upside guys.
Now, go out and pay to bring in one of Downs, Benoit, or Putz and give us something to really smile about.
I really like this move.
Can’t tell ya why, but I think he will make the squad.
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Not related my ass
Are you kidding me? How can there be two @#$%ing Buchholzes in Major League Baseball and them not be related?
That’s @#$%ing crazy.
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I can't believe I just pluralized Buchholz.
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Thank you, Theo
Unless there are slam-dunk options in FA for the bullpen, just get a hundred possible arms and see who works out. And I’d rather spend $1m on a player with upside than 500k on a player whose arm could fall off any day.
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