Transactions| Date | Transaction | |||
| 3/30/08 | Signed free agent RHP Terumasa Matsuo from the Independent Shikoku Island League in Japan. | |||
| 3/28/08 | Place RHP Mike Timlin on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 20, with a laceration on his right ring finger; Sent RHP Kyle Jackson outright to Double-A Portland; Sent RHP Edgar Martinez outright to Triple-A Pawtucket. | |||
| 3/26/08 | Optioned OF Brandon Moss to Triple-A Pawtucket. | |||
| 3/24/08 | Purchased the contact of C Kevin Cash from Triple-A Pawtucket; Placed RHP Josh Beckett on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to March 19, with a lower back strain; Optioned C Dusty Brown to Triple-A Pawtucket. | |||
| 3/19/08 | Assigned RHP Bartolo Colon, INF Keith Ginter and INF Joe Thurston to Minor League camp. | |||
| 3/17/08 | Optioned RHP Craig Hansen, RHP Lincoln Holdzkom, C George Kottaras and INF/OF Chris Carter to Triple-A Pawtucket. | |||
| 3/13/08 | Released C Doug Mirabelli; Signed RHP Lincoln Holdzkom to a one-year contract; Optioned RHP Devern Hansack, OF Jonathan Van Every to Triple-A Pawtucket; Reassigned LHPs Jon Switzer and Michael Tejera and RHP Lee Gronkiewicz to Minor League camp; Placed RHP Curt Schilling on the 60-day disabled list with degeneration in his right biceps tendon. | |||
| 3/12/08 | Reassigned RHP Dan Kolb to Minor League camp. | |||
| 3/8/08 | Optioned RHP Edgar Martinez and RHP David Pauley to Triple-A Pawtucket; optioned RHP Kyle Jackson and INF Argenis Diaz to Double-A Portland; reassigned RHP Michael Bowden, LHP Hunter Jones, RHP Justin Masterson, INF Jeff Bailey, INF Tony Granadillo and INF Gil Velazquez to Minor League camp. | |||
| 3/6/08 | Signed RHPs David Aardsma, Clay Buchholz, Bryan Corey, Manny Delcarmen, Devern Hansack, Kyle Jackson, Edgar Martinez, Jonathan Papelbon and David Pauley; LHPs Craig Breslow and Jon Lester; Cs Dusty Brown and George Kottaras; INFs Chris Carter, Argenis Diaz, and Dustin Pedroia; and OFs Jacoby Ellsbury and Brandon Moss to one-year contracts. | |||