The Red Sox are clearing out to head to the charity golf tournament (proceeds going to the Children’s Hospital of Florida), but we have a few remaining nuggets from the morning:

–While prospect Lars Anderson has only played first base thus far in his professional career, the Sox will likely experiment with having him play some outfield when he gets to Triple-A, an assigment that seems likely to occur at some point this season. The Sox make a point of exploring the versatility of their position players as they reach the upper minors in order to maximize their potential impact on the club. For now, however, Anderson will continue to be an everyday first baseman until he graduates from Portland.

Anderson said that he played some outfield in high school and also pitched. Unfortunately, he was not permitted to employ his left-handed knuckleball.

Curious: has there ever been a left-handed knuckleballer in the majors? Perhaps Terry Francona…

–Outfielder Chip Ambres is making his second tour in the Red Sox system, having been a Triple-A outfielder for the team in 2005 until getting traded to Kansas City for Tony Graffanino that July. In high school, Ambres said that he was the top recruit in the state of Texas, just ahead of … Adam Dunn. Ambres had a commitment to play at Texas A&M, but signed with the Marlins two days before the start of classes.

–As mentioned earlier, Zach Daeges put some hurt on the ball in a batting practice session against Tim Wakefield. Daeges said that he had never before faced a knuckleball pitcher, and couldn’t recall having seen a knuckleball prior to today.

–Left-handed reliever Hunter Jones, who put up excellent numbers last year in Double-A Portland (0-1, 1.19) and Triple-A Pawtucket (7-2, 3.02) is focusing this spring on slider command, just as he did while playing winter ball in Venezuela. Jones suggests that he had used the pitch more as a show-me offering in the past to get batters to look for something other than the fastball. Now, he is trying to use it as more of an attack pitch. Jones has scrapped his splitter.