The Red Sox have officially re-signed Jason Varitek. Thank God. It looks like it's a 1 year, $5 million contract with a team option for a second year at $5 million, and a player option of $3 million for a second year, with incentives that can bring the total to $5 million. Basically, what this means is that after this season ends, if the Red Sox want to keep him, they'll just exercise the team option for 2010 and he'll earn $5 million the following season. If he sucks it up this season, the Red Sox can decline to pick up the team option, but Varitek can decide to play for the Sox in 2010 (player option) for a base salary of $3 million. He will then earn additional incentives for number of games played. Looks like a win-win for the Sox. We lock our backstop down for another year (maybe 2), and keep our pitching staff happy and comfortable. He might be an auto-out on offense, but pitching wins championships right?
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eh - i could've gone either way on this. he's not going to hit much better and i was hoping we'd go after salty or miguel montero. granted he calls a good game but whatever...
also the bonuses start at 80 games...just 80 fricken games. platoon players easily get to 80 games.
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