Chaim Bloom’s foremost Red Sox task is developing competent pitching

The Red Sox have a new sheriff in Claim Bloom who is starting a reconstruction. Bloom needs to address the poor history of pitching development.

The Boston Red Sox have done the expected and in honor of Queen, another one bites the dust with 29-year-old Brian Johnson being placed on outright waivers. To continue the rock theme, this is not the Johnson of AC/DC who has retired, but the left-handed former first-round pick (2012) who accomplished little for Boston.

Johnson is symptomatic of a depressing trend with the local nine’s inability to develop pitching. Johnson is just the latest in a pathetic record of pitching development. Henry Owens, a first-round pick (2011), suffered a similar fate…