{"id":9553,"date":"2014-12-01T21:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2014-12-01T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T02:59:58","slug":"cubs-have-offered-jon-lester-six-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/01\/cubs-have-offered-jon-lester-six-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs have offered Jon Lester six-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9554\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jonlester.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jonlester.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jonlester-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cubs have the largest offer on the table for free agent left hander Jon Lester.<\/p>\n<p>Lester, 30, has an offer for six years and $138 million from the Cubs reports CBS Sports&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/writer\/jon-heyman\/24856029\/sf-tries-for-lester-cubs-said-to-bid-138m-sox-130m-braves-less\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Heyman<\/a>. If true that is the biggest offer out to Lester who split last year between the Red Sox and Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are said to be willing to go to $130 million leaving them as the biggest competition to the Cubs at this point. One other option could be the Giants who were unable to re-sign Pablo Sandoval. <\/p>\n<p>Lester lives in Atlanta but John Hart has twice conceded that the Braves are long-shots to land him deeming him the right player at the wrong time. Other teams who have at-least shown interest are the Cardinals, Blue Jays and Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Lester had his finest season when it mattered making 32 starts last year posting a 2.46 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs have the largest offer on the table for free agent left hander Jon Lester. Lester, 30, has an offer for six years and $138 million from the Cubs reports CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman. If true that is the biggest offer out to Lester who split last year between the Red Sox and Athletics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,153,503,470,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9553","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-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-jon-lester","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","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=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9555,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}