Walker Buehler's One-Year Deal with Boston: A Closer Look

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00:00Walker Buehler of My Los Angeles Dodgers, a homegrown hero, wins a World Series,

00:05but now on the way to Boston, what do we know about the deal?

00:10Look, at this point, I think it's fair to say that other teams must have had some injury

00:14concerns, Dubs, with Walker Buehler to only, you know, hand him that one-year deal. The other thing

00:19that I would say is maybe from Buehler's perspective, he's still very young, feeling

00:24like if the four or five-year deals like Blake Snell got weren't out there, maybe he felt like

00:29he needed to go prove himself again. Now, I know Dubs, he was fantastic in the postseason,

00:34but remember, he's had a lot of injury issues over the last couple of years.

00:38So maybe this works out well for both sides. Buehler goes to Boston and does a really good

00:43job in that one-year contract that he ends up getting, and then maybe he goes back on the free

00:48agent market again. That would seem to be what is going on here, because otherwise, he's the

00:52kind of pitcher that absolutely could get a multi-year deal. Proving himself is something

00:56that he wants to do very clearly, and I think teams want to see him a little bit more healthy.

01:01He definitely will be a one-to-watch player, I think, this season.