Last winter, the Chicago Cubs needed to bolster their starting rotation and Walker Buehler needed to re-establish his value coming off a pair of injury-shortened seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The fit was there, but instead, he wound up inking a one-year deal with the Boston Red Sox.
I wouldn't say he quite re-established his value, but Buehler pitched 126 innings - his most in a single season since his 7.1 bWAR 2021 campaign when he finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting. The Red Sox wound up releasing the right-hander in late August and he latched on with the Philadelphia Phillies - amounting to another missed opportunity in the eyes of many Cubs fans at the time.