{"id":9421,"date":"2014-11-18T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9421"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:39:56","slug":"braves-meeting-with-jon-lester-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/18\/braves-meeting-with-jon-lester-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves meeting with Jon Lester this week"},"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 Atlanta Braves are scheduled to meet with Jon Lester this week reports ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney. <\/p>\n<p>We would not read too much into that.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves traded away outfielder Jason Heyward on Monday acquiring pitcher Shelby Miller but will at-least talk with Lester about a potential deal. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Braves have a meeting with Jon Lester this week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/status\/534718078886891520\">November 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is more likely that Lester&#8217;s $100 million contract is too much for the Braves as both the Cubs and Red Sox have previously been linked to the 30-year-old left hander.<\/p>\n<p>In 32 starts last season Lester was 16-11 with a 2.46 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP between the Red Sox and Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves are scheduled to meet with Jon Lester this week reports ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney. We would not read too much into that. The Braves traded away outfielder Jason Heyward on Monday acquiring pitcher Shelby Miller but will at-least talk with Lester about a potential deal. The Braves have a meeting with Jon Lester [&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":[28,503,470],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jon-lester"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421","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=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions\/9422"}],"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=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}