Varitek looking for a no-trade clause. I must admit, initially I thought “oh, that’s another of Boras’s demands”, but then I realised, if, as people seem to think, Varitek is willing to take a “hometown discount” and settle for 3/$27, he wants to know that the Sox don’t just turn around and trade that contract, otherwise he’s making less than he would’ve got and he’s still out of Boston.
Don’t know how likely Theo would be to do a turnaround trade like this - the PR would be awful and make it that much harder to sign future free agents at discounts - but the fact that the possibility exists might play in the person’s mind.