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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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.
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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.
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I'm very upset that we lost somebody like him. We seem to have a lot of that going around.
david gets
It was huge. That gets us right back in that game. Just David being David.
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.
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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.
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Hopefully he can find ways to just have a comfortable lifestyle. Hopefully he's gaining more and more experience with it every year. That's what happens when you're the best right-handed hitter in the game.
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If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.
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.
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I don't think we had any anxiety. We didn't pitch well those two games, we didn't pitch well at all.
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I'm not answering that either way. I will in the end, but no, I'm not answering that either way. No excuses, no blame, not saying anything either way.
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I knew it was coming. Believed it was coming.