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
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He was sick with some kind of virus, he was coughing, he had thrown up, his eyes looked terrible, he had lousy stuff, and yet he kept the Royals from scoring,
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What am I thinking? The guy on the mound was pretty frustrated. He was just frustrated with the strike zone. He had a tough time throwing strikes. That's all. I don't think he threw at Trot, by no means. I think he had a frustrating day.
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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.
ball since thrown
You can't read too much into it. He's thrown the ball well for us more than he's not thrown the ball well for us since he's been back.
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I think he's been working his way to health and strength and being a pitcher again. He had a major injury he had repaired this offseason. He's real close. If he throws the ball like he did today, it gives us an opportunity to win a lot of games.
good matter throw
He had good stuff. It was a matter of just honing it in to where he wanted to throw it.
ourselves tried
I think we just tried to do too much. We got ourselves out.
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I think that's what makes this lineup good is that different people contribute on different nights. We're going to have our times where our big dogs are going to carry us. But when different people can contribute, that's when we're going to be our best.
battle
I think he did have to battle with it.
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I think his personality in the clubhouse and his ability to communicate with the pitchers will be good. That's not taking anything away from Josh. Josh brought a ton of communication with the pitchers and he did an excellent job with that, communicating back and forth. I know Dougie really well. He's a very good friend a great teammate.
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Keith was the single reason we have a championship in this city. I have a ton of confidence in him.
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Keith threw the ball really well, also. He threw some really good changeups. And his location of his fastball was pretty good.
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Some of this stuff can help to drive you. But the bottom line is, we need to go after them. Go. Go play the game.
hard team
That's the way this team works. We do the hard things first.