The Red Sox made more roster moves today, assigning a number of players to minor league camp.

The biggest name on the list is right handed reliever Dan Kolb. The one-time Brewer closer could not re-discover his groove and was sent down.

Also designated to join the minor leaguers are third baseman Keith Ginter and second baseman Joe Thurston, although both will remain with the big club until the team leaves for Japan next week.

Minor League Baseball. com has a look today at the current status of the Red Sox farm system. One part of the article caught my attention.

It looks like the Sox are really impressed with PawSox catchers Dusty Brown and George Kottaras. Farm Director Mike Hazen says both players used the offseason to work on flaws in their game…and both reported to camp noticeably improved. Hazen says both will begin the season in Pawtucket and share playing time.

This is good news that the organization appears to be looking at either Brown or Kottaras as a potential successor to Jason Varitek.

Who knows…if these two battle for the starting job in Pawtucket and one of them makes better than expected strides, might we see one of them up with the big club if Doug Mirabelli continues to regress? It will be fun to watch.

A quick couple of links for your Friday;

The International League has come up with its latest report from Spring Training. Nothing new than what you’ve already read about the PawSox over the last week or so.

From the parent club, many PawSox players were resigned to new contracts yesterday.

Here is a piece from Red Sox.com on the progress of pitching prospect Justin Masterson.

There is also other news from down on the farm.

Minor League Baseball is taking a look at all 30 Major League clubs and assessing their farm system heading into the 2008 system.

Today they look at the stars of tomorrow for the Red Sox. Some of these guys we hope to profile if they make it to Pawtucket this year.