{"id":660984,"date":"2026-05-10T02:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T02:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:23:42","slug":"pedro-martinez-dismayed-over-jason-varitek-reassignment-tek-means-so-much-to-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660984\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Mart\u00ednez dismayed over Jason Varitek reassignment: \u2018Tek means so much to this city\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 Pedro Mart\u00ednez expressed his support for Jason Varitek and Alex Cora, who were fired by the Boston Red Sox<\/a> last month as the organization made sweeping changes to its coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez was at Fenway Park on Friday night to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the franchise\u2019s first home game. All living Red Sox alumni with retired numbers were part of the team\u2019s pregame ceremony, including Mart\u00ednez, Carl Yastrzemski, Wade Boggs, Carlton Fisk, David Ortiz and Jim Rice.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez was particularly close with Varitek, his catcher for all seven seasons he played in Boston. And he was staunch in his support of Varitek, who\u2019d served in various roles for the club since his retirement in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to let me know, there\u2019s got to be a reason because Tek means so much to this city,\u201d Mart\u00ednez said. \u201cTo me, Tek is a legend here, and I\u2019m not going to go into details because I don\u2019t know. If I knew, I\u2019d tell you straight up, too. I\u2019d tell you why (he was reassigned), but I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s very unfortunate that I don\u2019t get to see my batterymate out there, giving me a hug or probably receiving the baseball from me when I threw it today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the Red Sox said they reassigned Varitek to a different role<\/a> in the organization after he was fired as the team\u2019s game-planning coordinator, a league source said that was not the case. The Red Sox have yet to clarify the role offered to Varitek, noting in a news release the night of the firings that details of his reassignment will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

Though Mart\u00ednez said he hasn\u2019t been in touch with Varitek \u2014 \u201cTek is not a phone kind of person,\u201d Mart\u00ednez said \u2014 he\u2019s spoken with Cora.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to reach out, but they all know they will soon be in baseball,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThat I can tell you. Every one of those coaches probably will be in baseball in not too long. Cora could have easily been in baseball if he wanted to, but he chose to rest, and I really respect that. I know what it\u2019s like and I really like the fact that he went to his family to take care of his family first, until he finally gets back to baseball. If he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cora turned down a job to manage the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>, who fired manager Rob Thomson days after the Red Sox fired Cora.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez, who\u2019s served as an adviser for the club for several years, often working with pitchers in spring training, noted he\u2019d be more than willing to take on a larger role with the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always open to help out,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to go for 162 (games) with the team, that I can tell you right away. I\u2019m not going to be with the team 162, but in any other role that they need me to be, could be to be here more frequently, could be (to) join the team anywhere or join the front office in some ways, like they normally do. I don\u2019t mind. I\u2019m here to help, and I\u2019m committed. And they know it. It\u2019s just a matter of putting it all together and picking the spots where they. They feel like I\u2019m helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Pedro Mart\u00ednez expressed his support for Jason Varitek and Alex Cora, who were fired by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5156,591,85],"class_list":["post-660984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}