{"id":8019,"date":"2014-05-29T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:04:52","slug":"red-sox-hoping-to-reopen-negotiations-with-jon-lester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/29\/red-sox-hoping-to-reopen-negotiations-with-jon-lester\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox hoping to reopen negotiations with Jon Lester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7735\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jonlester.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jonlester.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jonlester-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox would like to lock up pitcher Jon Lester this season. <\/p>\n<p>Red Sox president Larry Lucchino told WEEI on Thursday that he expects the team to reopen negotiations with Lester during the season. Lester is reported to have turned down a four-year extension worth $80 million in the spring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Lucchino tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DandCShow\">@DandCShow<\/a> that he would expect negotiations with Lester to continue during the season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WEEI (@WEEI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WEEI\/statuses\/471999456276398080\">May 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lester wants to be paid like an ace meaning he envisions a contract in excess of $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Over his first 73 innings this season Lester has a 3.45 ERA, 1.23 WHIP and 83\/21 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox would like to lock up pitcher Jon Lester this season. Red Sox president Larry Lucchino told WEEI on Thursday that he expects the team to reopen negotiations with Lester during the season. Lester is reported to have turned down a four-year extension worth $80 million in the spring. Lucchino tells @DandCShow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7735,"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-8019","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":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}