{"id":9368,"date":"2014-11-12T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:22:15","slug":"red-sox-in-ongoing-talks-with-jon-lester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/12\/red-sox-in-ongoing-talks-with-jon-lester\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox in ongoing talks with Jon Lester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester.jpg\" alt=\"jonlester\" width=\"594\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8689\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox have been speaking to the representatives of free agent left hander Jon Lester about a return to the team for which he pitched for from 2006 until a midseason trade this year.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said Wednesday the team had spoken to Lester&#8217;s agents and that talks would continue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cherington said he met Lester&#39;s reps &quot;socially&quot; and didn&#39;t talk specifics, but the &quot;conversations will continue.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian MacPherson (@brianmacp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianmacp\/status\/532622307282665472\">November 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Currently it is unclear if a contract has been extended to the 30-year-old but there does at-least seam to be interest on both sides in a reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Max Scherzer, Lester is considered the top free agent pitcher on the market.<\/p>\n<p>In 32 starts between the Red Sox and Athletics Lester posted a career best 2.46 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP. He has topped 190 innings in each of the last seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we view the Red Sox as the favorites to land Lester but these things are fluid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have been speaking to the representatives of free agent left hander Jon Lester about a return to the team for which he pitched for from 2006 until a midseason trade this year. Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said Wednesday the team had spoken to Lester&#8217;s agents and that talks would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,503,470,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jon-lester","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","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=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9369,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions\/9369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}