Probably so. Looking back, though, the 4/70 offer could have been remedied by following up with a better one. Instead we had Sam Kennedy make a statement about the public 'not knowing all the data points' or something odd like that, and then Cherington himself saying how the Sox had been waiting for a counter-offer from Lester's team and were somewhat baffled that they didn't get one. All of which was made to look absurd when they ended up finally offering him 135 million.