I think they get Lester too but I think his camp is unhappy with where the money is ending up so rather than take the Cubs offer now they've thrown it out there that there are two more "mystery" teams. Two days ago the Yankees were getting involved. My guess is they were hoping for 6/$150 million (curiously exactly what Buster Olney said would get it done, think he might have taken that verbatim form Lester's agent...hmmm) and the Cubs look to be the high offer about $10 mil or so under that. Obviously the Cubs aren't going to bid against themselves so they're looking for a counter. I don't think there is one but if this drags to the weekend I could see the Chicago just saying "fine, $144/6 let's get it done". There have been two sets of numbers all along, one where the Yankees were a player with the TOR guys and one where they weren't. The latter appears to be reality and the market has fallen accordingly. Wasn't too long ago that Scott Boras was dropping 7 years/$230 million for Scherzer. Now he'll get more than Lester but at this point, with the big money staying put and plenty of trades to be made, I'd be surprised if Scherzer got more than 6/$175. The real loser here is likely to be James Shields who probably won't sniff more than 4 years/$70 million and I'm sure he was hoping for a lot more than that.