Sox, Lester Agree On 5 Year Extension
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports is reporting the Red Sox have signed Jon Lester to a 5-year, $30MM extension. The contract includes a $13MM team option for 2014.
Along with Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia, this makes Lester the third long term contract handed out to homegrown talent in three months. Passan writes, "The impending deal is the largest given to a pitcher with around two years of service time, doubling the four-year, $15 million deal Cleveland’s Fausto Carmona signed at the beginning of last season. If the Red Sox exercise the option, they will have kept ...
Report: Red Sox Sign Lester To 5-Year Extension
SOX & Dawgs —
According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, the Boston Red Sox and Jon Lester have agreed to a 5-year, $30 million extension with a team option for 2014. The deal buys out all of Lester’s arbitration years and first two years of free agency.
Next up for Lester is passing a physical on Tuesday to make the deal official. Lester had been the last player that the Red Sox had not signed for 2009.
In 60 games (59 starts), Lester is 27-8 with a 3.81 ERA. In 354 2/3 innings, Lester has 262 strikeouts and has issued 140 walks. In 31 games at Fenway (30 starts), Lester is 16-2 with a 3.30 ERA.
Lester joins teammates Dustin Pedroia and ...
Report: Jon Lester Extended for 5 years, $30 Million
Over the Monster —
... Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports reports that Jon Lester has been extended for 5 years at $30 million total, with a $13 million option for 2014. The source is reportedly someone close to the team (as opposed to an actual official or someone who'd go on record), so it's possible this is untrue. Sounds like a good deal to me, especially if last year was the turning point that it seemed. Locking up a tough lefty for cheap money is rarely a bad move. I hope the report is true. ...
Help Chad Billingsley Buy a Home Where There's No Ice
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness —
While we've mentioned it from time to time here, one of the most criminally underreported stories about the Dodgers is the need to get some of these young players locked up to long-term deals that at least buy out a few arbitration and free agent years. Not a single one of the young Dodgers crop (arbitrarily defined as Russell Martin, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Andre Ethier, Chad Billingsley, and Jonathan Broxton) is signed on more than a year-to-year basis. At least with Martin, we know the team has tried to approach him in the past about such a deal, only to be rebuffed by his agent. Earlier this winter, we found that he'd changed agents and was open to a long-term ...
Sox Give Lester Five-Year Extension
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog —
From Jeff Passan: Boston Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester, who overcame cancer to become one of the best pitchers in the American League, has agreed to a five-year, $30 million contract extension with a $13 million team option in 2014, a source close to the team told Yahoo! Sports. ... The deal is contingent on Lester passing a physical Tuesday. The impending deal is the largest given to a pitcher with around two years of service time, doubling the four-year, $15 million deal Cleveland’s Fausto Carmona signed at the beginning of last season. If the Red Sox exercise the option, they will have kept Lester off the ...
Sox lock up Lester on five-year deal
Boston Sports Buzz - Red Sox Patriots Celtics Bruins MLB NFL NBA NHL Baseball Football Basketball... —
Yahoo! Sports reports that the Red Sox have agreed to a five-year, $30 million deal with Jon Lester today. The deal reportedly includes an option year for $13 million. This approach is right in line with Theo's supposed line of thinking this offseason - lock up the young core of the team (Dusty and Youk included) in order to stabilize the roster ...
Jon Lester becomes Red Sox cornerstone, signs long-term deal
Red Sox Monster —
Kevin Youkilis. Dustin Pedroia. And now, Jon Lester. Those are the identified cornerstones for the Boston Red Sox going forward, as the team simultaneously attempts another run at the World Series while also planning for the future. Lester became the latest 20-something to agree to a long-term deal with the Red Sox, signing a five-year, $30 million deal with an additional $13 million team option, according to Yahoo! Sports . In all likelihood, the deal means Lester will be in Boston long after most members of the current team depart. David Ortiz? Mike Lowell? Given their age, ...
The Morning After: March 9, 2009
Sparty and Friends —
A funny thing happened on the way to the ball park. Yeah..the baseball park. For all the waiting I could not stand for baseball to get here….for all of the complaining I did about February sports… I have yet to watch a single baseball game, check a single stat, or see where the Cubs are and how they are doing. It hit me last night when I was watching SportSCenter and saw the results of the WBC pool play. But, I suddenly realized that - just like preseason football that I don’t watch - preseason baseball just doesn’t matter. There, I said it…and actually I believe it. In fact I think you guys know this and believe this as well. ...
Chatter: 3/9/9
Rotodatabase.com blogs —
Here is a link worth bookmarking, sortable projections from four of the biggees 2009 Projections Batters . You can customize them for your team Here Chipper Jones is a little banged up again. If you have owned him at any time in the last three seasons, you are used to this. "I got a good pitch to hit and tried to come out of my shoes to hit it," Jones said. "I'm a switch hitter, it's something that's happened to me dozens of times. Hopefully, it will just be a couple days." Does Gordon Beckham have a chance at making the White Sox, after only 58 minor league AB's ? Guillen said he won't hold Beckham's inexperience against him and ...
Jawnee Lestah!
3:10 To Joba —
... In a surprising piece of news from the weekend that didn't involve Alex Rodriguez or a damaged part of his anatomy, the Red Sox brass announced that they had signed lefty Jon Lester to an extension. ...
Lester deal nearly official
Extra Bases —
On Sunday morning, the Red Sox will make "an announcement regarding Jon Lester," which will almost certainly be that Lester and the Sox will make the extension reported last Sunday by Yahoo! Sports official. The contract extension, according to the report, will be for $30 million over five years with a $13 million team option for 2014. Also, Lester will make an intra-squad start at the team's minor league complex tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. He was going to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a start against the Orioles, but Adam Mills will make that trip instead.
Sox announce Lester deal
Extra Bases —
The Red Sox officially announced this morning a five-year contract extension for pitcher Jon Lester with a team option for 2014. Details of the extension, reported last Sunday by Yahoo! , were not announced by the team, but Yahoo! reports the deal will be for $30 million over five years with a $13 million team option for 2014. Also, Lester will make an intra-squad start at the team's minor league complex today at 11:30 a.m. He was going to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a start against the Orioles, but Adam Mills will make that trip instead.
Sox make Lester extension official
Extra Bases —
The Red Sox announced this morning that the team has agreed to terms on a five-year contract extension with lefthanded pitcher Jon Lester with a club option for 2014. The team did not disclose the terms of the extension, but a Yahoo! Sports report last Sunday valued the deal at $30 million over five years, with a $13 million team option for 2014.
Jon Lester's Contract Extension is Official
FanHouse —
by Tom Fornelli Filed under: Red Sox, AL East, MLB TransactionsLast Sunday word leaked out from Yahoo!'s Jeff Passan that the Boston Red Sox had signed Jon Lester to a five-year contract extension. Passan had cited "a source close to the team" in his report, then on Monday a source even closer to Jon Lester, Jon Lester himself, said no deal had been agreed upon by anyone. Of course at the same time Lester expressed his desire to work out a long term deal with the team, and now it would seem he's gotten his wish. At least, I think he has. It's on the Red Sox official website, though, so I ...
