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Red Sox Make 1 Year Offer To Tek
Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog —
... Rob Bradford of WEEI.com is reporting that the initial Red Sox offer to Jason Varitek was for 1 year and less than Posada's yearly salary of $13 million. It is very unlikely that Tek will accept this offer but shows that the Red Sox are not willing to go with a long term deal. Based on the initial offer I would speculate that Theo's final offer will be for 2 years and he is willing to move on without Varitek. ...
Red Sox Make One-Year Offer To Varitek
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... According to Rob Bradford of WEEI, the Red Sox made an initial offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek. It's one year, and the salary does not approach Jorge Posada's $13.1MM average. ...
The Showdown
YFSF —
... Scott Boras held up Jorge Posada's contract is the ideal for Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek's next contract. The Red Sox have officially dismissed that ludicrous claim: ...
Sox make 1-year offer to Varitek
Over the Monster —
From Rob Bradford on WEEI:
According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Red Sox’ initial contract offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek this offseason was for one year. It was not determined what the monetary worth of the offer would be ...
Bradford doesn't mention how much the Sox offered, although he says it didn't come close to what Posada got ($13.1 million). That's not shocking, as Tek isn't worth that much. While I can't see Boras advising his client to take a 1-year contract, I'm glad Theo is taking a ...
Red Sox Offer Varitek 1-Year Contract
SOX & Dawgs —
According to Rob Bradford of WEEI.com, the Boston Red Sox have initially offered Jason Varitek a 1-year contract.
According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Red Sox’ initial contract offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek this offseason was for one year. It was not determined what the monetary worth of the offer would be, although indications were that it didn’t approach the annual average commanded by Jorge Posada ($13.1 million). Varitek’s agent, Scott Boras, referenced the Yankee catcher’s contract as an appropriate ...
Jorge Posada Money? Please, Red Sox Offer Jason Varitek One Year
FanHouse —
... and the rest of the Red Sox front office were joining us in laughter, because the Red Sox are reportedly only offering Varitek one year in their initial contract offer. This will surely send Boras into a blind rage and likely mark the end of Varitek's career in Boston. Let's face it, someone desperate to make a splash will waste a lot of money on someone with Varitek's pedigree. I mean, the Nationals acquired ...
Red Sox initial offer to Varitek is only a 1 year contract
Bugs & Cranks —
According to Rob Bradford over at WEEI.com the Red Sox initial offer to Jason Varitek this offseason was a 1 year contract:
According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Red Sox’ initial contract offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek this offseason was for one year. It was not determined what the monetary worth of the offer would be, although indications were that it didn’t approach the annual average commanded by Jorge Posada ($13.1 million). Varitek’s agent, Scott Boras, referenced the Yankee catcher’s contract as an appropriate point of ...
A Tale of Two Offers
Center Field —
The Red Sox front office guys have been busy little bees. Reportedly, the Sox have made two offers - one to Jason Varitek and one to Junichi Tazawa.
Per Rob Bradford, the Red Sox offer (categorized as "initial") to Varitek is for one year - and, not surprisingly, is for less than the $13m annual haul earned by the Yankees' Jorge Posada. That kind of short-term deal is most definitely not what super-agent/demon spawn Scott Boras is looking for, and is likely either an offer designed to be rejected offhand by Varitek... or as some kind of ...
Monday Morning Link Dump
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Initial offer to Varitek 1 year--Bradford
XM MLB Chat —
"According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Red Sox’ initial contract offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek this offseason was for one year." ...
Sox Offer Tek a One-Year Deal
ShysterBall —
That's what WEEI is reporting. No word on how much it was, but I'm guessing it wasn't a lot. I'm also guessing that the Sox have no desire to bring the guy back. I'm also guessing (hoping?) that Sox fans have come to trust team management enough to where they realize that not bringing Varitek back absent an extremely team-friendly, make-good kind of a deal is the right move.
A one-year offer for Tek? Something doesn’t add up
Comcast SportsNet New England » Wicked Good Sports —
Rob Bradford of WEEI.com reports that the Red Sox have made a one-year offer to Jason Varitek for considerably less than the $13.1 million per season that Jorge Posada currently robs from the Yankees.
In my mind, the money is not the issue; it’s the one-year offer. I can’t envision a scenario where Varitek signs with the team for one season — unless, of course, he’s being signed as a backup. If that’s the case, who do the Red Sox have in mind behind the dish in 2009? Salty from Texas? Laird? Pudge Rodriguez? Ray Schalk? ...
Musing On Clay Buchholz and Junichi Tazawa
Baseball Time in Arlington —
... ...and if the Red Sox choose to part ways with captain Jason Varitek, whom they have reportedly offered a one-year contract that "[doesn't] approach the annual average ($13.1 million) commanded by Jorge Posada" (Varitek's base salary in 2008 was $9 million, so it seems quite within the realm of possibility that Boston is offering him no raise, or is perhaps even requesting that he take a pay cut)... ...
Rangers rumors, nonrumors
Uwe Blog —
... According to one source, which is now being denied, the Boston REd Sox offered a 1-year deal to Jason Varitek. Of course, the Red Sox were one of several teams really interested in catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. ...
Red Sox can afford gamble on Varitek
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
Boston radio station WEEI is reporting that the Red Sox have made their initial offer to Jason Varitek : Posada's contract isn't a reasonable analogue because 1) Posada was a better player when he got that deal than Varitek is now, and 2) it wasn't a reasonable contract anyway; the Yankees overpaid because, of course, they can. Of course, so can the Red Sox. I don't mean that they can spend, say, $11 million and not notice. But if there's a debate about spending $9 million or $11 million, that debate won't last long because the $2 million difference is basically a ...
Deal Or No Deal? The Washington Nationals Get Into Today's Free Agent Roundup.
Federal Baseball —
... Sawks Make Awfuh Ta Tek...(Translation : Red Sox Make Offer To Varitek)...Oh no they didn't according to the Red Sox' Captain Jason Varitek's agent Scott "Maximum" Boras, who refutes reports that originate with Red Sox' radio station WEEI's Rob Bradford's post entitled, "Sources: Initial offer to Varitek for one year", which quotes the oft-quoted "sources familiar with the negotiations", in a report claiming that Boston had reached a one-year deal with their catcher/captain which would keep him in ...
Prediction: Varitek has played his last game for the Sox
Red Sox Monster —
That's it: Jason Varitek is gone. That's my unofficial prediction after seeing last night that Rob Bradford, as reliable of a Red Sox reporter as there is out there, reported yesterday that "according to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Red Sox' initial contract offer to free agent catcher Jason Varitek this offseason was for one year." Friends, you can make of that what you want. Here's my take: If the Red Sox did indeed lead off their negotiations with Varitek by offering only a one-year deal, you can pretty much kiss El Capitan goodbye. Come on, think about it. ...
Red Sox Offer Varitek One Year, Scott Boras Says, "Huh?"
Walkoff Walk —
... The blustery blabbermouths at radio station WEEI in Boston reported today that the Red Sox offered veteran catcher and team captain Jason Varitek a piddling one-year deal at a presumed cut-rate salary. MLB.com ...
Question: What is Going on in the Rumor Mill
MetsBlog.com —
... Yesterday morning, WEEI Radio in Boston wrote the Red Sox offered a one-year contract to Jason Varitek, which Varitek’s agent denied later in the day, per the ...
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