The Jon Lester Signs w/ Cubs - 6 yrs/$155 Million

[Splendid Splinter]

Probably doesn't mean much, given free agency has yet to begin, but I am friends with Jon Lester's wife's family. I'm not really wanting to provide "proof," but I worked in Greenville, SC, with the Lester's wife's dad when Lester and the wife met during Lester's rehab.

 

Anyways, it is my understanding that this is a Yankees/Cubs battle. I recently spoke with the wife's mom and, of all freaking things, she mentioned that the Cubs need to improve their stadium's children's daycare. It's the small things, boys...

 

 

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[Derwood]

Lot of rollover

 

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[Felix Leiter]

Probably doesn't mean much, given free agency has yet to begin, but I am friends with Jon Lester's wife's family. I'm not really wanting to provide "proof," but I worked in Greenville, SC, with the Lester's wife's dad when Lester and the wife met during Lester's rehab.

 

Anyways, it is my understanding that this is a Yankees/Cubs battle. I recently spoke with the wife's mom and, of all freaking things, she mentioned that the Cubs need to improve their stadium's children's daycare. It's the small things, boys...

 

You're right...it doesn't mean much.

 

I channeled Miss Cleo last night and she said Beth Murphy would be a candidate for any Cubs' daycare plans. $100

[ctcf]

Yes but what does Jon Lester's cousin twice removed's sister-in-law say?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

What color shirt was Lester's wife wearing when she said all this?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

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[UK1679666180]

First Mike Hampton and now Jon Lester.

[RammyFanny]

Bystro:

 

I would be floored if the Cubs made a big push on Hamels. They aren't going to trade the prospects required...End of discussion.

 

They will be heavy on Shields and Lester though. The goal being to get both of them.

[Guest]

I'm coming around a little bit on Shields, but I'm still really wary of his price tag. Brett's bit yesterday put him in the 4/75 to 4/80 range, which with the pick on top is beyond what I'd feel comfortable giving to him.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Both would improve my opinion of the front office considerably, but I think that's got to be more of a "thing we hope for but don't really expect" than a plan.

[Guest]

I keep forgetting about their claim on Hamels and how that's yet another encouraging sign in terms of their willingness to drop coin on pitching.

[Guest]

some quick rosterbation

 

c - castillo

1b - rizzo

2b - baez

ss - castro

3b - valbuena/russell

lf - coghlan/bryant

cf - alcantara

rf - soler

 

rotation - lester, arrieta, shields, hendricks, wood/straily/doub/wada?/jaxon?

 

bullpen - rondon, ramirez, strop, grimm, vizcaino, loogy, long guy

 

bench - uhh whatever? coghlan and/or valbuena once bryant and later russell come up

 

 

division favorites?

 

obv i wouldn't mind a position player (maybe span or montero like TT talked about) from outside somewhere, but trades are tougher to predict so i just choose not to mess with it and i don't want to spend a whole lot of our funds on martin.

[ctcf]

I'm coming around a little bit on Shields, but I'm still really wary of his price tag. Brett's bit yesterday put him in the 4/75 to 4/80 range, which with the pick on top is beyond what I'd feel comfortable giving to him.

 

What a 2nd/3rd round pick? Who gives a [expletive].

[Guest]

I'm coming around a little bit on Shields, but I'm still really wary of his price tag. Brett's bit yesterday put him in the 4/75 to 4/80 range, which with the pick on top is beyond what I'd feel comfortable giving to him.

 

What a 2nd/3rd round pick? Who gives a [expletive].

 

A top 50 pick isn't something to just throw away(fun fact, #46 is where Gallardo, Rollins, and Rolen were all drafted), most especially in this case when we're talking about paying a 33 year old SP about 10 million more than he's probably worth.

[ctcf]

I'm coming around a little bit on Shields, but I'm still really wary of his price tag. Brett's bit yesterday put him in the 4/75 to 4/80 range, which with the pick on top is beyond what I'd feel comfortable giving to him.

 

What a 2nd/3rd round pick? Who gives a [expletive].

 

A top 50 pick isn't something to just throw away(fun fact, #46 is where Gallardo, Rollins, and Rolen were all drafted), most especially in this case when we're talking about paying a 33 year old SP about 10 million more than he's probably worth.

 

Fraid I've gotta disagree there.

[ctcf]

Also does giving the pick up for Lester bother you? He's gonna be 31 and probably require an overpay.

[Guest]

Also does giving the pick up for Lester bother you? He's gonna be 31 and probably require an overpay.

There's no pick to be given up for Lester.

[ctcf]

Also does giving the pick up for Lester bother you? He's gonna be 31 and probably require an overpay.

There's no pick to be given up for Lester.

 

Ohhhh snap you're right. I keep forgetting that for some reason.

[Guest]

That said, I agree. Do. not. care. about giving up that pick for shields.

[Guest]

Also does giving the pick up for Lester bother you? He's gonna be 31 and probably require an overpay.

 

Giving up a pick in principle does not bother me, it's about the overall value. That pick has value, especially as FA prices continue jumping to 7M+ per win. Everyone has a threshold of comfort somewhere, that projected Shields deal is just across mine, and adding the pick makes it worse. I especially don't like it for guys of Shields' age, position, and lack of elite ceiling too.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm at the point where I hope we just Vikings away a bunch of non-first-round picks just to annoy people who keep obsessing over them.

[SouthSideRyan]

I did not expect this from TT

[Guest]

To be more clear, I'm not comfortable with giving Shields 4/80 even without the pick. It's just one more thing that tips the scales further in that direction. Plus I think you need to be more diligent in the case of a guy like Shields who has so many risk vectors.

[Brian]

some quick rosterbation

 

c - castillo

1b - rizzo

2b - baez

ss - castro

3b - valbuena/russell

lf - coghlan/bryant

cf - alcantara

rf - soler

 

rotation - lester, arrieta, shields, hendricks, wood/straily/doub/wada?/jaxon?

 

bullpen - rondon, ramirez, strop, grimm, vizcaino, loogy, long guy

 

bench - uhh whatever? coghlan and/or valbuena once bryant and later russell come up

 

 

division favorites?

 

obv i wouldn't mind a position player (maybe span or montero like TT talked about) from outside somewhere, but trades are tougher to predict so i just choose not to mess with it and i don't want to spend a whole lot of our funds on martin.

 

Forgot to lump Turner in the 5th spot battle

[SouthSideRyan]

I think a 2nd round pick is so insignificant that it should basically be ignored when evaluating whether to sign a FA or not.