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Daily Red Sox Links: Clay Buchholz, David Ortiz, Rusney Castillo

Today's links look at whether it's better to build around hitters or pitchers, the state of the infield defense, and the need for bounce backs this season.

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The Red Sox took a risk in keeping the enigmatic Clay Buchholz while trading away the safe and consistent Wade Miley. (Alex Speier; Boston Globe)

Is David Ortiz about to put together the best age-40 season in history? (Matt Kory; Fangraphs)

Baseball teams can't even agree whether it's better to build around young hitters or young pitchers. (Brian MacPherson; Providence Journal)

Can Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts live up to the hype once again in 2016? (Sean McAdam; CSN New England)

Is Boston at risk to play a really bad infield basis on a nightly basis this season? (Nick Canelas; BP Boston)

Rusney Castillo is working to finally adjust to major-league pitching. (Jen McCaffrey; Masslive)

If the Red Sox are gonna be good this year, they'll be getting bounce backs from a good portion of their roster. (Ian Browne; RedSox.com)

The Grateful Dead featuring John Mayer is going to be performing at Fenway this summer. Because apparently that's a thing. (Jason Mastrodonato; Boston Herald)