I'm thinking it was one of those weird GM moves where the analytics group just lets out a collective groan when they hear it's about to happen.
Like 90% of what AA does
I always find this line of reasoning so silly. Teams are going to pay free agent money to a reliever just so their in-house reliever doesn't earn near free agent money in arbitration? Makes no sense.
Seems like Buccholz barely throws his low/mid 90s 4 seamer anymore, preferring to approach baseball is a pure junk baller:
cutter 88
change 79
curve 77