Clay Buchholz to pitch at AAA for now

With Bartolo Colon pitching so well, the Red Sox have more than enough starting pitching. For now, it looks like Clay Buchholz is the odd man out.

Buchholz has been on the DL with a broken finger nail, but when he comes off the DL, he'll be pitching for Pawtucket. It's hard to imagine Boston allowing a talent like Buchholz to stay in the minors for long, so at the very least, we'll probably see him coming out of the Boston bullpen in the near future. In the long run, I'm sure someone (I'm looking at you, Bartolo) will get hurt and Buchholz will regain his rotation spot.

I can't help but wonder if things would be a little different had Jon Lester not thrown a no-hitter so recently. I really don't know, but I will say that Buchholz is the superior pitcher, 2008 ERAs be damned.