Jason Varitek Will Exercise Player Option
by Randy Booth on Nov 9, 2009 8:07 PM EST
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NESN learned on Monday night that the 37-year-old Varitek will exercise his $3 million player option for 2010 that includes up to another $2 million in incentives. The move is expected to be formalized on Tuesday and will keep Varitek with the Red Sox through at least the end of 2010.
With the incentives, Varitek would earn an additional $400,000 for starting 80 games in 2010 and another bonus for every 10 starts thereafter.
No shocker, but it did seem to come kind of quickly.
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So, sadly, does this mean he'll be back next year?
$3m is a lot for a back-up with a weak arm, but the team has to pay it no matter what. Is $3m + whatever the real back-up would make worth it just to let him go? He does hit lefties well, or at least he did.
DFA Beckett
by South Coast Ghost on Nov 9, 2009 8:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Varitek is like NG in that he wants to be somewhere where he is not welcome or wanted
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Actually, kinda mean.
Ridiculous as he may be.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 8:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think it's funny because it's coming from Sandy
Anyone else, no laugh factor at all.
by Randy Booth on Nov 9, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's not like I'm saying it to be rude, it's meant as harlmess humor.
Randy, if the implication is I am not welcome, I will go away if you wish.
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm just not 100% up on the dynamics yet.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Well everything I say with the exception of my stunning and amazing knowledge of MLB
is never to be taken seriously. Now do you get it?
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Even the Canadians are communists thing? ;)
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 10:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No that's pretty damn serious business.
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Perestroika?
Glasnost?
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 10:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Prune juice will clear that right up.
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Kind of quickly?
What’s to think about? He’s been sucking like an airplane toilet for the past two seasons. I love The Cap, but there’s certainly nothing complicated going on here.
He can get paid three mil, he’s worth about a bucket of KFC.
RED SOX: “So, Jason, we’ve decided not to exerc-”
CAP’N TEK: "I’M EXERCISING MINE!!!
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 9:12 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Most excercising he'll have to do for the rest of his life.
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 1:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Financially, he can't do better
But he’s going to end up embarrassing himself. I’d bet on a BA somewhere around the Mendoza Line, with little to no power. And there’s no way he makes the 80 starts he needs to get that performance incentive.
Like a lot of other players who used to be very good or even great, he’s hung around too long.
by RSNexile on Nov 9, 2009 9:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Greed
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 9:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, cuz YOU'D turn down a $3million payday.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 9:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Homerism
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What is?
Saying that if someone offered you 3mil to do less work than you’re doing now I think you’d take it?
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 10:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I drink everyday and go to strip clubs
I’ve got the life.
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I drink everyday.
Rural Nova Scotia strip clubs are scary.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I have a question I'd ask but surely would be banned
so I will pass.
VARITEK MUST GO
Brandon Webb in 2010
Jason Bay is not WERTH it
by gizmosandy on Nov 9, 2009 10:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He has an email listed on his profile.
Ask privately.
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 1:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Kinda sounds what my life in college has been like so far.
by Gnick on Nov 9, 2009 11:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Love it. But strip clubs are too expensive.
"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
-Tug McGraw
by BTLove on Nov 10, 2009 12:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Which is why we would ALL take that cool 3 mil, baby.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 10, 2009 8:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Do I get the option to donate the money immediately?
1) Catholic church, with a nice note for the pope about some questionable policies
2) US government, similar attachment
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 1:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's your money.
You may do with it as you please.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
by Bloggy on Nov 17, 2009 1:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What's Sandy going to do with $3 mil...
Wait, I don’t want to know.
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 1:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Why do I get the feeling
that this is the only exercise Varitek will engage in this offseason?
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
by 0157H7 on Nov 9, 2009 9:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Hey
He came into camp this year pretty fit (looking)…
by Randy Booth on Nov 9, 2009 9:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, and remember how surprised we were when he actually showed power in the first two or three months of the season
We all know how that turned out.
DFA Beckett
by South Coast Ghost on Nov 9, 2009 10:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ah, damn.
My bad, didn’t see you’d already made the joke.
@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation
by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 1:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
catchers named Jason suck
I just commented over on the BCB thread about our bad Jason (Kendall) and remarked that it’s probably good that Tek picked up his option so Doug Melvin wouldn’t try to sign him. Someone had to point out to me, because I didn’t look in my haste to be snarky, that Tek’s OPS for 2009 was higher than Kendall’s. I hate reality. At least the Sox picked up Martinez’s option, and Theo isn’t as wacky as DM and won’t try to sign Kendall too.
by morineko on Nov 9, 2009 10:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
or maybe not
word is now that he hasn’t picked it up yet and hasn’t decided yet
by wolf9309 on Nov 9, 2009 10:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
WISH HE Fing WOULDN"T
HE IS DONE DONE DONE – Just become a Coach or his new knick name will be JV as in Junior Varsity
by www.SoxTherapy.Net on Nov 10, 2009 11:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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