Rumors have indicated that the San Diego Padres are very interested in Duran, with many expecting them to land him if Boston moves on from him.

At the unofficial halfway point of the Red Sox season — unofficial because, at the All-Star break, they have played 60 percent of their games — it is time to take stock of their body of work.

The Red Sox farm system has long skewed toward position players in recent years and been light on pitching — so much so that part of hiring chief baseball officer Craig Breslow two years ago was to r...