PLANNED to sign, and ACTUALLY SIGNING are two completely different things. In a vacuum you can look at a guy who wants 4 mil to sign and say to yourself 'that is a possibility'. But to look at it in conjunction with the guy who wants 2 mil, the guy who wants 3mil and the guy who wants 1.5 mil then it may not be possible to have them all. But you select them to at least have the option of mixing and matching.
More good stuff from Kelly:
6.0 IP, 4 hits, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
Three starts in a row without a BB, spanning 17.0 IP, and only one in his 22.2 IP in A+. 19/1 K/BB
stealing some stuff from the soxprospects thread:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/
http://www.panolian.com/content.aspx?module=ContentItem&ID=136986&MemberID=1180
FREE CLAY
But really I feel for Buchholz because on every other team in the majors he has a spot in the rotation. I think you'd be extremely hard pressed to find another 24 year old with the flawless minor league track record and talent of Buchholz who is not in a rotation.
I think you can say something similar for Bowden too. He's younger, but in most rotations out there he would have a spot also.
I'll say this though, it'd be a shame if we traded Buchholz for someone who's not a legit superstar (IE Salty) because of an apparent space issue. Because later this year or the 2010 season there will most definitely be spots and Buchholz would occupy one of those.
I don't get why we are having this conversation after 27 innings...
Granted they haven't been good but at least he's striking out over a batter an inning. Quite frankly we invested a ton in Dice and considering we are a) only paying him ~8-9mil a year for him and he's coming off an 18-3 2.90 season I think we should be giving a bit more slack for now.