{"id":4650,"date":"2013-09-09T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2013-09-09T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T01:32:58","slug":"red-sox-picking-up-jon-lesters-option-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/09\/red-sox-picking-up-jon-lesters-option-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox picking up Jon Lester&#8217;s option for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4651\" alt=\"jonlester\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jonlester.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jonlester.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jonlester-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox will pick up Jon Lester&#8217;s option for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Lester, 29, is due a modest $13 million next season. Currently the left \u00a0hander has a 3.86 ERA and a 1.31 WHIP over 193 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Sources: Red Sox have agreed to pick of Jon Lester&#8217;s $13 million club option next season. Agreed upon, may still need to be signed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Witrado (@awitrado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awitrado\/statuses\/377230006419984385\">September 10, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lester has spent all eight of his MLB seasons with the Red Sox\u00a0with a career 98-56 record, 3.78 ERA and a 1.31 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox will pick up Jon Lester&#8217;s option for the 2014 season. Lester, 29, is due a modest $13 million next season. Currently the left \u00a0hander has a 3.86 ERA and a 1.31 WHIP over 193 1\/3 innings of work. Sources: Red Sox have agreed to pick of Jon Lester&#8217;s $13 million club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,470],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-jon-lester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}