With the catching market shrinking by the minute - winter meetings deals for Gerald Laird and Ramon Hernandez already in the books - there was at least one person in the Bellagio Hotel who remained confident Jason Varitek would find an opportunity somewhere. That was his agent, Scott Boras. (Full article: 970 words)

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