The Boston Red Sow gave left-hander Jon Lester a new 5-year contract worth $30 on Sunday. The deal could be worth $42.75 million is Lester decides to exercise a club option in 2014.
“We’re extremely happy to have gotten this done,” General Manager Theo Epstein said. Read the rest of this entry »
May 20th, 2008 by Brian Ethridge
Tagged as: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Jon Lester, Kansas City Royals, MLB
Boston Red Sox Pitcher Jon Lester has survived cancer, pitched a World Series clincher and now he has thrown a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals.
“I can’t tell you which one means more to me than the other,” Lester said. “The World Series is, obviously, the World Series. How many people get to say they’ve won that? And a no-hitter is a no-hitter. How many people can say they’ve done that?
Lester is one of the good guys in the sports world and he deserves all the success he gets. Congrats Jon.
