Red Sox poised to hire Willis as pitching coach

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TORONTO -- Former Cleveland Indians pitching coach Carl Willis, whose time in Cleveland overlapped with John Farrell's tenure there as farm director, is poised to become the Boston Red Sox 's new pitching coach.