MLB Notes: Tasked with building Red Sox new pitching pipeline, Justin Willard is getting to work

The Red Sox have struggled to develop homegrown pitchers in recent years. New director of pitching Justin Willard hopes to change that, and he's already hard at work building a pitching pipeline that stretches from Boston to the Dominican Republic.

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