Birth Date: August 14, 1984 in Nederland, TX
Height/Weight: 6'3", 191 lb.
College: Angelina Junior College
Contract: League Minimum
To be filed under: You Learn Something New Everday: There were a lot of Germans who settled in Texas. I knew there were Germans in Pennsylvania and in upstate New York but I didn't know about Texas.
Around here, German surnames are a rarity-you'll run across an occasional Snyder or Holt-but Eurpean last names, on the whole, tend to be Anglo, or Italian, or French, or possibly Polish. My guess is that few people in New England would have real trouble with Saltalamacchia but Buchholz really throws us for a loop.
Buchholz threw in 4 major league games last season, one of which was his no-hitter. Clearly way too small of a sample size to be of any use (just going on those numbers he's projected to be a 29 game winner), but the numbers are impressive: Over 22.7 innings, he struck out 22 players, gave up 14 hits, and walked 10. He had 8 starts in Pawtucket, where he struck out 55 players, gave up 32 hits, and walked 13. His Earned Run Average was kind of high at 3.96. In Portland, his ERA was a stunning 1.77 and his WHIP was only .89.
The kid has amazing stuff-he has a four seam fastball in the low to mid ninties, a two seam fastball that runs from the high eighties to the low ninties, a straight changup that runs from the high seventies to the low eighties, a circle changeup, a curveball that runs from the high seventies to the low eighties, and an average slider that sits in the low to mid-eighties. He is a little guy and he's struggled with consistency in the past but he has the potential to be very, very good.
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