The team wanted him to gain weight, ideally arriving at camp at 220 pounds. Grissom came in at 221. He worked exclusively at second base after spending the previous offseason learning left field in a crash course before being traded by the Braves to the Red Sox and shifting back to second.

The Red Sox announced another batch of cuts from big league camp, and among the notable names is one of the club’s contenders for the starting second base job.

That leaves a relatively wide-open battle for the second base job this spring. For most of camp, that’s appeared to be a battle between incumbent David Hamilton, top prospect Kristian Campbell, and Vaughn Grissom.