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Clay Buchholz hard to match

At 6-0, Red Sox righty bears resemblance to Roger Clemens -- sort of

Updated: May 2, 2013, 10:48 AM ET
By Gordon Edes | ESPNBoston.com

TORONTO -- The personalities, physiques and mound demeanor couldn't be more opposite.

Think about it for a second: Can you picture Roger Clemens sitting in front of his locker before a start, playing a guitar like Clay Buchholz? Put a guitar in Clemens's hands, and he'd be liable to go all Belushi in Delta House on you, smashing it to bits.

Clemens was Big Gulp Texan. Buchholz is Texas Lite, more stealth than swagger.

The snarling Clemens commanded a game like Patton. ...

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