Buchholz: 'Matter Of Time' Until Sox Turn It Around
BOSTON (CBS) - After a 2-9 start to what was supposed to be a 100-win season, the Red Sox just want to start winning games.
Clay Buchholz thinks that time will come sooner rather than later.
"It's just a matter of time, I think that's all it is," Buchholz told 98.5 The Sports Hub's Gresh and Zolak on Thursday. "We have the team to do it. We have the guys, the talent to do it. I think its just a matter of time."
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The Red Sox are dead last in the standings and boast a Major League high 6.77 ERA. They rank 23rd with a .230 batting average, even with new additions of Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford. Crawford is hitting just .152 with one extra base hit.
Buchholz would not say who, but admitted he thinks some guys are pressing right now.
"That comes along with not meeting your expectations and not meeting the teams expectations, you start pressing," he said. "You start trying to do too much with not a lot of stuff to do it."
Buchholz himself is off to a rocky start. Going into spring, he knew he had secured a spot in the rotation after posting a career high 17-wins and a 2.33 ERA in 2010. Now he finds himself 0-2 with an ERA of 7.20. In two starts, the right-hander has been taken deep five times after giving up only nine home runs last season.
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He said if the results do not start showing, both in the numbers and the win column, it will the players who should be held accountable.
"If it's not going right we have to take responsibility for it," Buchholz said. "The organization has done the best they could to put a team together for us to win. If we're just not winning at the time, we're definitely accountable for it."
General Manager Theo Epstein addressed the team before the home opener last week after the team's 0-6 start. He stressed that the organization still believed in it's players and would remain behind them despite the rough start.
As for the team, there is no shortage of players that will step up and address the team if need be. Buchholz mentioned veterans such as Jason Varitek, David Ortiz, Josh Beckett and Mike Cameron, and even threw his own name out there if something needed to be said.
"There are a lot of guys on this team that have been around the game a long time and been through some struggles," Buchholz said. "I don't know if it's been quite like this, just in this atmosphere and how high the bars set for us. We definitely have the guys on the team to be leaders and to step up when they think they have to."
Buchholz will take the mound Friday night when the Red Sox open up a four-game series against the Blue Jays at Fenway.
