Arizona Diamondbacks Exit Interview: Clay Buchholz
By TC Zencka
It’s time to decompress the 2018 season for each of the Arizona Diamondbacks in turn, to place their season in the proper context of their career whole and to reduce their season efforts to a single letter grade.
We begin the Arizona Diamondbacks exit interviews with a surprise contributor who began the 2018 season on a minor league deal: Clay Buchholz.
In the weeks to come, we’ll get to each of this season’s Arizona Diamondbacks, prioritizing these pending free agents who may have spent their last days in the desert:
- RHP Clay Buchholz
- LHP Patrick Corbin
- CF A.J. Pollock
- RHP Brad Ziegler (retired)
- LHP Jake Diekman
- RHP Randall Delgado
- OF Jon Jay
- C Jeff Mathis
- IF Daniel Descalso
With offseason decisions looming, it’s a good time to take stock of those free agents we know best – to remind ourselves where they came from with the hope of better predicting where they might be going. With no further adieu, let’s examine right-handed starter Clay Buchholz.