Well, it was important, and Buchholz went back to being a pumpkin. Sometimes when people who are expected to be be frontline starters don't live up to their billing, they will help sink a team. I'm not fapping at the opportunity to break up this team at the moment (because I don't see the returns from trades being significant enough), but Buchholz has to be on the block this winter. The upside to the Red Sox (and any team that would take a gamble on him) is that his contract is one year plus two team options.
Clay is a weird pitcher in that he's an underachiever stuff-wise and the inability to ever put up a full season's worth of innings, but someone whose ERA has actually overachieved his FIP. He seems like the type of guy who didn't have a strong enough third pitch to make up for his IQ, and separately would have never landed on the Red Sox had he not stolen laptops from a middle school and scared other teams off from drafting him (whether it was his makeup or lack of competition).