Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield were teammates for 15 years. They retired within days of one another in the spring of 2012. And they have spent the initial stage of their post-playing careers working for the Red Sox in multiple capacities.
It’s fitting, then, that they will march into the team’s Hall of Fame together, too.
Varitek and Wakefield headline a 2016 class that also includes late 1920s outfielder Ira Flagstead and Larry Lucchino, one of the most influential executives in franchise history. They were elected yesterday by a 14-member panel of club executives, media members, booster club representatives and historians, and will be inducted May 19 at the Sheraton Boston and hailed in a pregame ceremony the following night.