Column: As the price of elite starting pitching goes up, the White Sox and Cubs ponder their options
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

When the Cubs signed Jon Lester to a six-year, $155 million deal here at the 2014 winter meetings, his former manager with the Red Sox, Terry Francona, was asked if he thought the lure of ending another championship drought factored into Lester´s decision. `Well, that and $150-something million,...