Chris CrockettAll Due Respect To Tim Wakefield...The Time Has Come For Clay Buchholz to Supplant Him In Rotation
February 22nd 2010 17:30
( From Amalie Benjamin's article in the Boston Globe )
“I think Theo [Epstein] and Tito and John [Farrell] feel like we’re a better team with me in the rotation. I eat up innings, I do whatever it takes to try to help us win, and I think we agreed on that aspect."
Let me start off by saying, I'm a Tim Wakefield fan. I respect what he's done for this team for all these years.
Now let's get down to business.....
How long can this team hold back Clay Buchholz? Lets stop bullshitting around here. It's Clay Buchholz' time to be given an honest chance at cracking this rotation from the get-go. I'd love to have Wakefield around to serve in a utility role. Someone gets injured, in comes Wake as a replacement starter. Otherwise I want him in the pen, waiting in the wings in case an injury surfaces with someone in the rotation. If the Red Sox weren't clear when negotiating with him that this is what they wanted, then shame on them. Maybe I'm giving the brain trust too much credit here, but I'm going to say that there is no way that they re-signed him to be a starter. No way. I guess the issue is, were they clear to Wakefield when negotiating with him, what their true intentions were? It seems [as Amalie noted in her article] that the Red Sox aren't so sure what role Wakefield will play, yet Wakefield is conveying that they all agreed that the best role for him on this team is as a starter. I guess it will play itself out, but the time has come for Buchholz to gets his chance to shine from jump street in 2010.
Chuck
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