Jon Lester can look around him and see familiar faces from his time in Chicago with Davey Martinez, Jim Hickey, Alex Avila, and Kyle Schwarber all with Washington now, and it helps the 37-year-old, 15-year veteran adjust as he works in West Palm Beach, FL after signing a 1-year/$5M deal with Nationals this winter following six seasons with the Cubs.
“It’s been good,” Lester said of his first few days of Spring Training with his new team. “It’s just — any time you come into a new situation and you have familiar faces it make things a lot easier when you do kind of have that anxiety of being the new kid or whatever.