Jason Varitek’s wife, Catherine, took a shot at her husband’s former team and the man who leads the baseball staff there.
Varitek, a Red Sox great, was part of Alex Cora’s coaching staff before the franchise purged Cora and several coaches after a 10-17 start this season.
The Red Sox said that Varitek — a franchise icon who helped the team break its 86-year World Series championship drought — would be “reassigned,” and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow recently told reporters that there was an “open invitation” for Varitek to remain with the organization.
It seems that the invite might go unanswered after Catherine used a post on X to shade Breslow after a Red Sox fan posted on the social media platform, asking for Jason to come back.
“They have the ‘smartest man in baseball’ running the show… they’ll be OK without Jason, that’s what they wanted. It’s what’s best for the team,” she wrote along with a smiling face emoji.
Questions about where Varitek is in terms of his place within the Red Sox have popped up recently, and fans are clearly eager to see him back with the club in some capacity.
And publicly, at least, it appears Boston’s front office wants him back, as well.
“‘Tek has meant and means so much to this organization,” Breslow told reporters. “There will be an open invitation for him to remain in this organization for as long as he wants. I think those conversations will take place kind of in a private setting with [Sam Kennedy], and Tek and I. And obviously [I’m] confident and hopeful that we can work through that but also want to respect the time right now.”
Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy said on NESN earlier this month that the club was giving Varitek “all the time he needs” to make a decision and that “he’s got a very bright future in the game, and hopefully it’ll be here with the Red Sox for the long term.”
Varitek joined the Red Sox front office in 2012 before becoming a member of Cora’s coaching staff in 2021.
He is a storied player in franchise history, winning World Series titles in 2004 and 2007, and he was also a three-time All-Star who played a big part in the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry during a 14-year career with Boston.
