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The Red Sox have invited the following non-roster players to spring training:
LHPs
Rich Hill
Andrew Miller
Randy Williams
RHPs
Jason Bergmann
Brandon Duckworth
Matthew Fox
Tony Pena Jr.
Jason Rice
Clevelan Santeliz
Kyle Weiland
Alex Wilson
Catchers
Tim Federowicz
Paul Hoover
Ryan Lavarnway
Infielders
Brent Dlugach
Hector Luna
Nate Spears
Drew Sutton
Outfielders
Che-Hsuan Lin
Juan Carlos Linares
In all, the Red Sox will have 60 players to start camp. The most prominent prospects who were invited to camp were Lavarnway, Lin, Linares, Wilson and Weiland.
Globe: 20 invited to Spring Training
No surprise that Lavarnway recieved an invite as he tore it up in the minors. Everyone is talking about him now as the catcher of the future and now all the major media outlets have a month to gawk at him.
There are only two people to really look at that have a chance at making the roster: lefties Rich Hill and Andrew Miller. While Okajima will probably be the lefty specialist, another lefty in the bullpen can't hurt.
For those that haven't been fully keeping up with the Sox and wondering where other prospects like Jose Iglesias and Luis Exposito are, no need to worry as they're on the 40 man active roster.
Pitchers and catchers report in 10 days but you should already know that thanks to the countdown on the left side of the page.
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