The Red Sox have made their first cuts of the Spring. RHP Stolmy Pimentel and 2B Oscar Tejeda have both been optioned to Portland. Both are prospects and neither one of them stood much of a chance at breaking camp with the team.
The Mets continue to make cuts as well. RHP John Lujan, RHP Tobi Stoner, C Kai Gronauer, and CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis have been reassigned to Minor League camp. Lujan is a Minor League veteran who is starting his second year in the Mets organization. He'll likely be sent to Buffalo. The rest are prospects who received non-roster invitations to camp and none of them stood much of a chance to make the team.
Stoner has pitched with the Mets over the past two seasons and will likely be on call at Buffalo should an injury befall a Mets pitcher (he'll start for the Bisons but the Mets see him as a reliever on a long-term basis). Nieuwenhuis will also likely go to Buffalo and should see time in the Majors this year. Gronauer will likely be assigned to St. Lucie.
The Mets have not yet confirmed this wave of cuts, although a source has told LeRoy that they have been made.
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