Plan A probably included nabbing Lester in FA and convincing Ross to return to LAD to catch him, went after Lester the year before Greinke left and stayed in there almost until the bitter end for his services. My feeling from those reports were that Lester was using them to leverage a better deal from Theo tho.. It definitely sucks..Lester didn´t have a QO attached either, so he was draft comp free.
Urias is supposed to be the #2 after Kershaw. Then Hill slots in at 3 and has his games finished by Alex Wood. That leaves the 4 spot for Maeda who has his games finished by Stripling. And the 5th spot goes to whatever veteran is healthy and/or pitching ok. Ryu/McCarthy. Next year Yadier Alvarez should finish as the #3. Plus we will sign Otani who will be the #4. Hill/Maeda/Wood/Ryu/Stewart/Stripling/Kazmir would all fight for the 5th spot.
