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Click the play button below to hear Sean's comments, recorded this morning. The topics -- the Red Sox' batters failure to take advantage of a wild Gil Meche, Clay Buchholz's losing streak, David Ortiz's slump and associated wrist concerns, and Joba Chamberlain's importance to the Yankee staff.

Here's what Sean said about Buchholz's job security, with Bartolo Colon set to make a rehab start tonight for the PawSox:

"It's not difficult to imagine that tradeoff being made, maybe in a span of a couple weeks, if Buchholz doesn't start pitching better. He has yet to win -- he's 0-4 with an ERA in the 5s -- since coming back up from Pawtucket, and Colon gives them another option. At this point they'd be silly to not at least investigate that."

And about David Ortiz, who is 1 for 15 since the departure of Manny Ramirez:

"You don't know if that is wrist-related, a slump or just him trying to adjust to life without Manny. He had been OK for a period there, when he came back against the Yankees and Angels and was productive again, and his prodution has [since] gone down. So certainly that is something to monitor, because having dealt Manny off, the last thing that this team can afford is to lose Ortiz, too."

 Tags  Bartolo Colon Clay Buchholz David Ortiz Sean McAdam SoxTalk

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