If I'm John Lester.....

[borg]

-After 9+ months of negotiation
-After 1 insulting low ball offer
-After a 2nd below market offer
-After 9 years as a Red Sox Starter/ace
-After 2 WS rings
-After getting traded
-After watching MLB stars sign mega contracts.......in under 48 hours of negotiations........
....................the Red Sox continue to jerk this guy around.
Imagine low balling a player for the privilege to play for a last place team.
If reports are correct.....Fat Panda has a higher offer than Lester.
I HATE LARRY

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

I agree with your post. If I'm Lester, I realize I've got nothing left to prove in Boston. I'd go pitch in the NL and spend the rest of my 30's playing the #'s game, aiming for the HOF.

Caveat for all of this is whether he really prefers Boston and would rather play here - if given a fair market offer.

 

[meatface]

He has multiple WS rings, He should take all the money he can get before his arm falls off

 

[borg]

He has multiple WS rings, He should take all the money he can get before his arm falls off

I would......and I'd tell Larry to GFY on my way out the door

 

[captain stone]

Lucky Luccino should've been sacked at the same time that Theo & Tito were (correctly).

 

[Boston Boxer]

we don't know what he was offered...and if you believe the Boston media then i feel sorry for you. Let this play out.

Lester to the Sox
Panda to S.F.

 

[IcyPatriot]

Way overpaid ... see you later Jon.

 

[captain insano]

they gave him a no trade clause to.

 

[DarrylS]

I would not have signed Lester to this contract, and agree with the stance the Red Sox took.. vastly overpaid for a pitcher that age. They blew this signing last spring and probably could have gotten it done with a better offer, but you never know he could have rejected that as well.

I was out and about midday yesterday and was craving some Pats talk, unfortunately Zo was trying to drum up the vitriol against Luchino(sp) and the Red Sox in general. Speaking about do the fans like the rotation now with the three new guys, do we have confidence in these three #3 or #4 pitchers???.. If I had the patience to be on hold would have asked him what would the RS rotation have looked like if we signed Lester?? Lester, Buchholz, DeLaRosa and Webster??

There are no great answers and do not see the sox going after Hamels.. it would cost too many potentially good players...

The f.. up happened last spring, not this December..

 

[borg]

Well......Vegas likes Big Ben's roster build. Guess which team dropped from 22/1 odds of winning the WS down to 8/1 odds (lowest in league)...the Saaaaauuuux.
http://www.thespread.com/odds-managermlb-baseball-futures?task=show&catid=3&sortby=2

 

[Boston Boxer]

we will be ok without him. I don't think we are done adding one more starter. Guys that can take the ball every 5 days and give you 200 innings a year are few and far between. We just got two of them in Porcello and Miley. I like the rotation as it is right now, but i would not rule out Ben getting Shields or trading for someone like Hamels or Zimmerman.

 

[captain insano]

i think the rotation is garbage. if they go into next year with the current staff it will be a long year. miley is a nl pitcher so add another run to his era. clay buchholz is a fragile headcase that cant be counted on. masterson who i like is a project. hes been struggling. porcello is ok. i view him as a number three not a front man for any rotation other than a small market team. and that leaves joe kelly another number three or four man in the rotation. its hard to be very optimistic imo.

 

[captain stone]

They definitely need at least one more legit starter. Maybe Benny Cherry can convince some sucker
to give him one in exchange for the trash heap of JBJ, Renaudo & Marrero.

 

[Boston Boxer]

Shields would be a good addition and give us that Ace we need to head the rotation.

 

[BillBurr's_Bruinskid]

Shields would be a good addition and give us that Ace we need to head the rotation.

I wouldn't get him, too expensive and not very good especially in the playoffs. You may as well get scherzer hes more expensive but way way better.

 

[captain insano]

if they arent willing to pay lester 155 mill. they arent going to pay 170 for sherzer. and they arent going to give a 33 year old shields a five year deal. i wish they would do one or both. but they wont. the only way they are going to get a ace is a trade of some kind.

 

[captain stone]

I think one or both of Shields & Scherzer would cost a first-round pick, so I would be shocked if
either one of them were signed, especially Scherzer.

 

[Boston Boxer]

then we are left trading the entire farm system for Hamels or Zimmerman.

 

[Patriot Missile]

then we are left trading the entire farm system for Hamels or Zimmerman.

Surprised they couldn't package Cespedes for a better pitcher. Sox got kind of raped in that deal. Don't think Detroit took more than a second to sign that deal.

 

[IcyPatriot]

If I'm Jon Lester ... I start shutting the F up ... he's starting to whine like a little b1tch.

Hope he forgets how to pitch again like he did a few years ago ... how soon he forgets - fame is fleeting.