There was some big news in baseball yesterday, some transactional and some much more disturbing than that, but we start here with a former Red Sox great signing with another team. That would be Jon Lester, who is leaving the Cubs after six years in Chicago and heading to our nation’s capital. The lefty signed a one-year deal with Washington on Tuesday. The deal is worth $5 million.
We’ll start with the obvious, which is that Lester is not who he used to be. That, of course, is not a surprise nor is it something to even hold against him at this point since the veteran is entering his age-37 season.