You wouldn't think it to look at him. A gangly-looking guy with
scraggly hair and drooping shoulders, he has a beard that
manages to be simultaneously full and scruffy. His in-game habit
of dousing himself with water between innings makes him look
like he just stepped off a treadmill, or like he shares a hair
stylist with 1980's Rick James. To recycle Billy Beane's old
line, Clay Buchholz won't sell many jeans.  So it's fortunate
that Buchholz's job is pitching, because he's particularly good
at it. In fact, pitching is one of two things that Clay Buchholz
is particularly good at. The other is not pitching. It's the
combination of those two that allows the best starting pitcher
on the defending World Series Champions to go into the season
virtually unnoticed.  * * *  If David Ortiz hadn't hit .688, Jon
Lester would have been the World Series MVP. His dominant
pitching in the World Series and ALCS was paramount in Boston's
third championship in 10 years. Lester won the deciding game of
the 2007 World Series as