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Red Sox make flurry of roster moves ahead of the Rule 5 draft protection deadline

The deadline to add minor leaguers to the 40-man roster and protect them from the Rule 5 draft is at 8:00 PM ET on Tuesday, and the Red Sox have made their moves. There was a flurry of activity from the front office this afternoon, with some pretty surprising moves in there. We discussed some possibilities on who could be protected, and while we got the number of players correct we didn’t get all of the right guys. Here is the full list of roster movement for the day.