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Red Sox roster moves: Rubby De La Rosa, Allen Webster, Christian Vazquez sent down 03.15.13 at 7:37 pm ET
By Rob Bradford

Allen Webster (AP)

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Red Sox made three cuts from major league camp Friday, sending pitchers Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster to Triple-A Pawtucket, and catcher Christian Vazquez to Double-A.

With the moves, the Red Sox now have 48 players in big league camp, including 34 from the 40-man roster, one on the 60-day disabled list and 13 non-roster invitees.

De La Rosa impressed early on in camp (with Pedro Martinez surmising he could be as good as Roger Clemens or Juan Marichal), but ran into some command issues in his last two outings. The righty, who, along with Webster, came over from the Dodgers last August, allowed eight runs in 2 2/3 innings while walking five in his last pair of appearances.

Webster has been one of the bright spots of camp for the Red Sox, flashing a high 90′s fastball, along with a put-away changeup. The righty made a few small adjustments (click here for details), leading Red Sox manager John Farrell to describe him simply as “pretty damn good” after the pitcher’s last outing. In four outings, Webster struck out 14, walked one and allowed two earned runs in 11 innings.

Vazquez was also a standout in camp, impressing with a lightning quick delivery to second on stolen base attempts. The catcher gunned down all four baserunners attempting to steal against him, while also picking off a runner. (For more on Vazquez click here.)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/sean.kelly.9210 Sean Kelly

    naturally- send down 3 guys who were great at camp.

  • http://twitter.com/Zj_6 Zack Jones

    it’s spring training

  • http://twitter.com/Zj_6 Zack Jones

    We’ll see them soon enough I believe

  • Izzie Nutz

    they have to give the highly paid stiffs a chance. Great to know there’s backup available when Lackey’s 8.00 ERA in June puts him on the DL with a ball ache

  • thomar

    And the best of the bunch, Bradley Jr. will be sent down too. They are NOT putting out the best team they can.

  • Anonymous

    Best new look.No Valentine lurking in the dugout

  • NE1935

    Send Victorino with them. 3yrs 38M? What were they drinking and thinking?

  • Anonymous

    He hasn’t had an at bat yet,Give him a chance.He’ll be 10 times better than Crawford,though that’s not saying much.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WW4SUGV5J6Y7R5MVPAWVIWAJFU Dennis

    Our pitching in ST has been good it makes all the sense in the world to send them down.It does’nt take long to get here from Pawtuckett RT 95 .Its also right to send Bradley down.I guess Jim Rice is qualifie’d to give some advise.He felt that Bradley going down for a spell was good.After all he is just a phone call away.

  • fab4ever

    They won’t bring Bradley up to start the season….if you’ve been reading, the Sox can grab an extra year before he can enter arbitration and free agency…they wait until I believe it’s June 1st….it’s the SMART move!!!!!

  • Troy Forever

    Ortiz starts season on DL. They traded for Carp, but personally I think Overbay a better choice to start the season. Could then move Nap to DH more often. Also Overbay has always hit well in Boston. Bradley should make the team, but the money issue clouds the decision. The big question would be can the kid play RF in Boston? If he can, then the Victorino signing looks suspect, or if he play left and Victorino produces in ritght, then Nava and Gomes become pretty unimportant. But it is still pitching that will decide how far the team can go. Last note. I don’t think Lavarnway is MLB material.

  • Mujo

    Besides starting the clock on free agency, its not usually a great idea to bring up a guy who’s never even faced AAA pitching, much less MLB pitching, based on 40-50 spring at bats. Yeah, Bradley looks great and he will be up soon enough, but give him a chance to finish his development. Patience, people…..

  • Uncle Buck

    Just wondering, what team are you a fan of ?

  • Molly

    Well no more Bobby V so that is the best thing to happen 4 us

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