{"id":9629,"date":"2014-12-09T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2014-12-09T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:16:10","slug":"jon-lester-has-three-offers-of-150-million-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/09\/jon-lester-has-three-offers-of-150-million-or-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Lester has three offers of $150 million or more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_1461.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1461.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nJon Lester may make a decision on where he will pitch in 2015 as soon as Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>The veteran left hander is coming off a strong 2014 season in which he posted a 2.46 ERA and 1.10 WHIP.   <\/p>\n<p>Lester has been most hotly sought after by the Cubs, Red Sox and Giants who have extra money to spend after losing out on Pablo Sandoval. <\/p>\n<p>Both the Cubs and Giants are believed to be in the $175 million range for Lester on seven year deals while the Red Sox are at or near the $150 million mark.  <\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly the Angels have not been linked to Lester after reports circulated this weekend that they were looking at rotation upgrades and were willing to part with C.J. Wilson. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves and Cardinals showed early interest in Lester but neither can afford to take on him at $25 million a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lester may make a decision on where he will pitch in 2015 as soon as Tuesday. The veteran left hander is coming off a strong 2014 season in which he posted a 2.46 ERA and 1.10 WHIP. Lester has been most hotly sought after by the Cubs, Red Sox and Giants who have extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-front","8":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","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=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}