I'm hoping Buchholz's problem is all in his head, because that can (in theory) be fixed, even though sometimes it can't be... Whereas if he's hiding an injury of some kind, that's a much bigger problem.

It's not as if he had good control with his old arm slot.

I thought the point of the change was to make his fastball not dead straight.

Although the Red Sox hope that by the time Clay Buchholz reemerges in Boston, he will throw his fastball for strikes more consistently, that doesn't mean he'll be throwing them from a consistent angle.
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Buchholz, whose arm angle veered more toward three-quarters than over the top in college, has dropped down a bit to reestablish his fastball command, which seemed to desert him at times in the majors

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Buchholz may have a bit of the ol' Derek Lowe "syndrome" going on as well, so it may be there's something other than arm slot issues going on here.

Clay Buchholz, a righthander from Angelina Junior College in Texas, was taken last summer with a first-round sandwich pick by the Sox, as other teams passed because Buchholz had been arrested for stealing 29 laptops from his high school and selling them. ''The easiest thing to do is to walk away from a situation like that," Cherington said. ''But Jason McLeod and Jimmy Robinson [the scout who signed him] worked really hard to find out if this was an issue that was endemic, a predictor of future behavior, or an isolated thing. There were still concerns at the end, we still had a decision to make, but so far he's been great. He's the first one on the field in the morning, works his butt off, and asks questions of everybody."

There were still concerns at the end, we still had a decision to make, but so far he's been great.

As far as I can tell, Bowden has about 138 innings between AA and AAA. He had ~142 IP last year. I doubt they'd let him go much past 175 IP, so he's a possibility, but probably not for long.

According to KLaw, his fastball is below-average (both in velocity and his command of it) and he doesn't have the plus off-speed stuff to make up for that.

So, missed the beginning of the game - was there a reason for the seemingly early hook for Buchholz? He had done better than Waters at that point...