Why is he still available?
Jason Varitek has not been even a league-average hitter aback 2007. The 2.7 WAR with which FanGraphs accustomed him that division are bisected as abounding as he has garnered in the four seasons since.
The endure affair larboard in his toolbox is the adeptness to hit awkward pitching, and the Red Sox (far and abroad the aggregation a lot of acceptable to assurance him if the winter began) chose lefty-mashing Kelly Shoppach over Varitek this winter.
What can he do?
Though award catchers who can hit awkward casting is easy, award anyone with Varitek's adviser bona fides and a brace of Apple Series rings is hard. He's old, but there accept been beforehand men abaft the plate, and he adeptness be advantageous absolutely as a coach to a adolescent player.
Best Chance:
The Chicago Cubs may get some barter offers for Geovany Soto this spring, and with Welington Castillo assertive to ample Soto's starting backstop role, they wouldn't charge an abnormally accomplished backup. Varitek could accumulate with Theo Epstein and advance Castillo's development in a rebuilding environment.
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