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| 21st October, 2008 - 10:24 am | Boston Herald - Red Sox captain Jason Varitek will become a free agent after the World Series and has spend the better part of the season avoiding the subject.
"He’s an important part of the organization, no doubt," GM Theo Epstein said. "He’s coming off a year that wasn’t his best (.220, 13 homers, 43 RBI), but he’s important, nonetheless. He’s a free agent, and we’ll be talking to him.
"We have an obligation to explore all of our options. We have to do that. We do that with every position."
If Varitek wants to remain in Boston, he could have leverage because there is little out on the market and none of the team's prospects are ready to play full-time.
"There’s not a lot of elite catching out there," Epstein said. "What we like is to at least be league average at every position, then way above average in as many positions as we can. The state of catching shifts the target a little." [READ] |
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