We do not know where anyone is going at this juncture. There is the sense that the Cubs really do not know if they could risk $325+M tied up in Jon Lester and Price, or if they’d try a two year shot at
John Lackey and reunite him with his friend Lester. We don’t know what top-of-the-rotation starters will be available in deals; Billy Beane doesn’t want to trade
Sonny Gray, but he likely will listen to the words, “at any cost.”
And that may also apply to
Chris Sale. Even with 2015 draft choice Carson Fullmer coming out of Vanderbilt, the White Sox rotation is lefty-heavy, Sale is 26, cost effective, and they might be able to get a big position player package from Boston, Houston, the Cubs or Texas, teams with deep farm systems.