There was that little report yesterday about how the Red Sox are still thinking of keeping Jason Varitek. Which makes no baseball sense because they already have two catchers who are better than Jason Varitek. Today Ben Cherington went on WEEI and expounded on that a bit, saying that they want to keep Varitek “in some way” and:
“As far as what that means immediately, what we want to do is keep talking to Tek and not discuss that in a public forum, but continue talking to Tek and [Boras] and figure out what’s best for the Red Sox and what’s best for him”
I take that as code for “if you wanna play baseball still you can go someplace and try it, but we’d really love to keep you around in a front office or coaching job or something if, like us, you come to realize that you really don’t have much of a future left as a player.”
But as is always the case, I tend to read too much into things.
