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Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan
Does anyone else think the Lester signing is gonna bite the Cubs? Watching them right now vs. The Reds, Hamilton gets on, an promptly steals with NO effort to hold him or throw him out.
Cards may have exposed him, much like the Royals did at the end of last season. If he blows up in their face, then they're in big trouble. Their staff isn't good enough to pick up the slack, and Epstein admits the org has no pitching on the way.
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It may be a bad signing, but it won't cripple them because they have gobs and gobs of money. That's the advantage of that market and the advantage Epstein has always had--he's never had to own his failures the way middle market teams have. They'll just keep buying SPs until they find one.
He signed a lot of god awful, overpriced FAs in Boston and it didn't matter because they just ate the money on the bad deals and kept on moving.
Also, Lester has always struck me as a paycheck player. I'm not surprised that one of the Chicken and Beer trio (ironically we have another, but he's playing for a contract this year) has come out uninspired after signing a fat deal.