No pitcher in baseball is worse than Jon Lester at holding runners close to first base.
This isn’t a new revelation, of course. Lester’s had this problem for years. The Cubs lefty just has a mental issue, and he basically refuses to throw the baseball over to Anthony Rizzo.
You know what Lester calls his pick-off move? He calls it David Ross.
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Well, he should. Ross is Lester’s personal catcher and has been for years. The veteran is darn good at picking off runners who stray too far from the first-base bag, like he did here to Conor Gillaspie of the Giants in the NLDS.