Boston has two great arms waiting down in Triple A Pawtucket. One is Michael Bowden, who has said it’s worth the extra stay in the minors if it means he gets to pitch for the Red Sox, the other is Clay Buchholz, who said he would like to be a starter for the Red Sox but also added that “I want to be in the big leagues”, seemingly indicating that he’d rather be traded than stew in the minors. Although Buchholz has that valuable big league experience that Bowden lacks, they are both major league quality pitchers who are bound to have successful careers. The Red Sox would like to do something with these arms right now, but there’s a bit of a traffic jam in their starting rotation, and it won’t get any better when John Smoltz comes back. The obvious solution is to move Daisuke Matsuzaka to the bullpen, but they’d rather not admit the Dice-K mega-deal was a bust, even though they got a few good seasons and 1 World Series championship out of him.

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