Chicago Cubs pitcher Jon Lester is a ‘take everything with a grain of salt’ type when it comes to who said what.
Videos By Rare
According to 12UP at the team’s convention – Lester was showed a video of Willson Contreras talking about the exchange between what was said after Lester picked off a runner last season.
RELATED: Sorry ladies, Cubs’ Willson Contreras just put a ring on it
Lester said to NBC as the video played on “He didn’t really say that.”
Remember this? Jon Lester reacts to Willson Contreras' comments from Cubs Con and sets the record straight.
Watch the full video here: https://t.co/81fuepOeAi pic.twitter.com/c1oxu9oDvn
— NBC Sports Chicago (@NBCSChicago) February 19, 2018
He continued saying “I doubt he’s afraid to say anything to anybody.”
Lester then began to chuckle, as even the thought of a young player like Contreras saying something like that to a savvy veteran like Lester was comical but Lester, thankfully, was a good sport about it.
RELATED: Hospital patients surprised by Cubs with tickets to Spring Training
Watch the profanity-laced story of Contreras telling Lester to throw first, courtesy of rljmb23.
