Jason Varitek
Jason Varitek
Jason Andrew Varitek, nicknamed "Tek", is a retired American baseball catcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. As of 2015, he works for the Red Sox as a "Special Assistant to the General Manager". After being traded as a minor league prospect by the Seattle Mariners, Varitek played his entire major league career for the Red Sox. A three-time All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner at catcher, as well as a Silver Slugger Award winner, Varitek was...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 April 1972
CityRochester, MI
assistant baseball gm good guy losing lost seem upset
I'm very upset we're losing a guy like him. We also lost our assistant GM (Josh Byrnes), who's a very good baseball man. We seem to have a lot of that going around.
flip general manager team time upset
I'm very upset Theo's gone, ... But on the flip side, it isn't the first time a general manager has been gone, and we need to find a way for the organization to get things done and see what the team is doing.
lost seem somebody upset
I'm very upset that we lost somebody like him. We seem to have a lot of that going around.
four instead pitches three throwing
He's throwing three pitches instead of four pitches, but how he's throwing those three pitches isn't different from when he was starting.
sure tag
I didn't tag him flush. I wasn't sure I nicked him or not.
easy grind means
By no means have we had an easy season. It's been a freakin' grind for us.
trying knuckleballs catching
You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.
blessed people realizing
When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.
break kept
He battled and kept us in that game. We just couldn't break it open.
pitch
I don't think we had any anxiety. We didn't pitch well those two games, we didn't pitch well at all.
pitches win
If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.
gives people playing reason
It's really exciting. It gives all the new people a reason to know why we like playing at home.
accelerate couple next personal
It's important for me these next couple weeks. Just on a personal level, I need to play. I need to get at-bats. To accelerate my play, I need to see pitchers. There's a lot to be done in the next couple of weeks.
against backs definitely wall
It's definitely crushing. We have our backs against the wall now.