Jon Lester has no animosity toward the Boston Red Sox and is open to re-signing with the team that traded him to the Oakland Athletics.

Lester will be a free agent after this season.

"My time there, the memories and all that stuff don't get erased based on this whole ordeal," Lester told the Boston Herald. "I'm glad with where I'm at, and I understood where [Red Sox GM] Ben [Cherington] was at. At the end of the season, it's not going to change my mind about going back there if they are aggressive and competitive and do the things they say they're going to do. Boston is definitely a place I would go."

The Red Sox told Lester that they would pursue him "aggressively" in the offseason. What that actually means, however, remains to be seen.