John Lackey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 235 lb

BornOctober 23, 1978 · Abilene, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 24, 2002

Final gameOctober 1, 2017

Seasons15 (2002–2017)

Anaheim Angels 2002–2004; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2005–2009; Boston Red Sox 2010–2011; Boston Red Sox 2013–2014; St. Louis Cardinals 2014–2015; Chicago Cubs 2016–2017

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified pitchers

29.8

26.3

42.1

17.5

SHO

165

66.7

28.1

63.2

149

29.8

1.8

170.7

22.8

ERA

4.59

22.8

WHIP

1.277

45.6

K/9

7.86

38.6

FIP

5.31

1.8

FIP-

121.1

3.5

ERA+

95.6

21.1

sWAR

1.3

21.1

of 58 qualified 2017 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.5

71.3

sWAR

39.8

97.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2002	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2003	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.6	-100.0	.000	1.8
2004	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.0	-100.0	.000	1.6
2005	33	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.9	-100.0	.000	3.9
2006	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	4.5
2007	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.1	-100.0	.000	5.9
2008	24	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	2.8
2009	27	9	8	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-48.5	-33.2	.112	2.9
2010	34	6	5	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.600	1.000	171.9	164.2	.437	2.0
2011	28	3	3	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	164.7	159.4	.424	-2.2
2013	29	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.4	-100.0	.000	3.1
2014	31	19	15	1	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	.133	.133	.133	.267	-46.2	-24.2	.121	1.9
2015	33	70	62	0	7	2	3	4	24	0	0	.113	.167	.145	.312	-24.8	-12.8	.151	5.0
2016	29	69	63	1	6	2	2	2	31	0	0	.095	.123	.127	.250	-47.6	-32.7	.116	3.4
2017	32	61	53	2	7	1	1	3	23	1	1	.132	.179	.151	.330	-22.1	-12.4	.156	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2002	18	18	9	4	1	0	113	44	33	69	10	108.3	3.66	1.348	5.73	4.01	91.6	119.8	1.9
2003	33	33	10	16	2	2	223	105	66	151	31	204.0	4.63	1.417	6.66	4.71	103.6	98.1	1.8
2004	33	32	14	13	1	1	215	103	60	144	22	198.3	4.67	1.387	6.53	4.18	92.9	96.1	1.6
2005	33	33	14	5	1	0	208	80	71	199	13	209.0	3.44	1.335	8.57	3.13	73.7	123.5	3.9
2006	33	33	13	11	3	2	203	86	72	190	14	217.7	3.56	1.263	7.86	3.40	75.2	127.0	4.5
2007	33	33	19	9	2	2	219	75	52	179	18	224.0	3.01	1.210	7.19	3.61	80.1	149.7	5.9
2008	24	24	12	5	3	0	161	68	40	130	26	163.3	3.75	1.231	7.16	4.56	103.5	117.6	2.8
2009	27	27	11	8	1	1	177	75	47	139	17	176.3	3.83	1.270	7.09	3.77	85.7	115.0	2.9
2010	33	33	14	11	0	0	233	105	72	156	18	215.0	4.40	1.419	6.53	3.81	88.8	97.7	2.0
2011	28	28	12	12	0	0	203	114	56	108	20	160.0	6.41	1.619	6.08	4.74	110.2	67.1	-2.2
2013	29	29	10	13	2	0	179	74	40	161	26	189.3	3.52	1.157	7.65	3.89	94.8	116.6	3.1
2014	31	31	14	10	1	0	206	84	47	164	24	198.0	3.82	1.278	7.45	3.79	99.5	100.2	1.9
2015	33	33	13	10	1	0	211	67	53	175	21	218.0	2.77	1.211	7.22	3.59	92.6	140.3	5.0
2016	29	29	11	8	0	0	146	70	53	180	23	188.3	3.35	1.057	8.60	3.85	92.7	124.1	3.4
2017	31	30	12	12	0	0	165	87	53	149	36	170.7	4.59	1.277	7.86	5.31	121.1	95.6	1.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

450

265

236

RBI

.1102

OBP

.1429

SLG

.1398

OPS

.2827

Pitching

G (P)

448

446

90th-most career GS

188

152nd-most career W

147

178th-most career L

SHO

2,840

164th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,294

58th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

815

242nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.920

WHIP

1.2946

K/9

7.27

171st-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	TB
2016-08-03	MIA @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	2	0	4
2010-06-23	BOS @ COL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3
2015-08-15	MIA @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
2014-08-19	CIN @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	2
2017-04-06	CHC @ STL Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2013-06-26	COL @ BOS Gameday	7.0	8	2	2	0	12	1
2008-09-21	LAA @ TEX Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	3	12	0
2006-09-28	ATH @ LAA Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	0	11	0
2007-07-07	LAA @ NYY Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	0	11	0
2014-04-23	NYY @ BOS Gameday	8.0	7	1	1	0	11	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.