So It’s Come To This: Rich Hill Close To Signing With Red Sox

In two of his first moves as Red Sox CBO, Craig Breslow acquired Cooper Criswell (off the waiver wire) and Richard Fitts (via the Alex Verdugo trade). The fact that Breslow started his tenure by bringing in two cheap, low-ceilinged pitchers (one of whom came from the Rays, at that!) had many people wondering if he was Chaim Bloom by another name. I never viewed it that way, though. I viewed those acquisitions as more of an indictment of the previous regime than a continuation of it: Breslow immediately saw that the Red Sox lacked any upper minors pitching depth whatsoever.