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Jason Varitek final stepped into the batter’s field at Fenway Park throughout the 2011 season.
Jason Varitek final stepped to the plate because the Crimson Sox’s captain and beginning catcher in 2011.
However the former backstop and present Boston coach was again within the batter’s field on Tuesday at Fenway Park forward of the Crimson Sox’s recreation in opposition to the Orioles.
Why? To assist decide the draft order of the group’s upcoming fantasy-football league.
Finding out draft orders forward of the NFL season has been an annual (and sometimes elaborate) custom on the finish of each summer season, with the Crimson Sox chipping golf balls off the Inexperienced Monster final season so as to decide the draft order.
This time round, the Crimson Sox referred to as upon Varitek to be the first determinant of their fantasy soccer fortunes.
As captured on video by Tim Healey of The Boston Globe, Varitek mapped out Boston’s draft order by taking batting observe at Fenway.
Every baseball that Varitek golfed into the outfield had a participant’s identify on it. The additional that Varitek hit a chosen participant’s ball, the upper that participant landed within the draft order.
Primarily based on the video above, it appears as if Crimson Sox reliever Greg Weissert wasn’t so fortunate on the draft order. Whereas Varitek predictability launched lots of these BP choices out to the warning observe, Weissert’s ball was fouled straight up into the cage — resulting in a low draft spot.
The 2025 Crimson Sox usually are not the one MLB group to make use of their ballpark as a solution to kind by way of their upcoming fantasy-football league. Final week, the Toronto Blue Jays decided their draft order by seeing which participant got here the closest to dropping parachute soldier collectible figurines right into a bucket from the highest of Rogers Centre.
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