Clay Buchholz is about to start today

Clay Buchholz is slated to start Game 1 today against the LA Angels as the Red Sox Number One pitching prospect makes his first ever Major League Baseball start. This is an exciting day for Red Sox fans as we haven't had this much buzz around a Sox pitching prospect since Jonathan Papelbon came up, and lets just say he's working out just fine. Buchholz has pitched 30.1 innings thus far for our triple A Pawtucket Red Sox (after starting the season in double A) and he's sporting a 3.26 ERA. In his 30.1 innings this year he's struck out a total of 48 batters and walked only 8 which is truly impressive.

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