Jason Varitek, Red Sox captain, to retire
February 28, 2012
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invitation to camp to try and win a job. But the Red Sox had been practicing for more than a week without him.
"He was one of the greatest players in this organization, in my opinion," Shoppach, who got his start in Boston in 2005, said last week. "I think that everybody learned from him. The brief time that I was with him years ago, there are still some things that I do in my everyday routine and my preparation that you know can't help but rub off from him."
It truly is the end of an era for the
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