Jon Lester

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 249 lb

BornJanuary 7, 1984 · Tacoma, WA, USA

MLB debutJune 10, 2006

Final gameOctober 2, 2021

Seasons16 (2006–2021)

Boston Red Sox 2006–2014; Oakland Athletics 2014; Chicago Cubs 2015–2020; St. Louis Cardinals 2021; Washington Nationals 2021

Percentile snapshot

2020 season — qualified pitchers

28.2

10.3

43.6

SHO

28.2

10.3

61.5

2.6

12.8

61.0

2.6

ERA

5.16

7.7

WHIP

1.328

17.9

K/9

6.20

7.7

FIP

5.17

7.7

FIP-

117.2

7.7

ERA+

85.4

5.1

sWAR

0.1

5.1

of 40 qualified 2020 pitchers (min 60 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.8

84.5

sWAR

45.9

98.5

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2006	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.2	-100.0	.000	0.7
2007	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2008	33	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	5.1
2009	32	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.3	-100.0	.000	4.6
2010	32	6	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-30.0	-40.1	.147	4.6
2011	31	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.7	-100.0	.000	3.7
2012	33	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	0.6
2013	33	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.4	-100.0	.000	2.9
2014	32	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	5.9
2015	32	71	62	6	4	0	0	0	3	30	0	.065	.108	.065	.172	-67.3	-50.3	.089	2.8
2016	33	75	59	3	6	3	0	6	6	18	0	.102	.185	.153	.337	-12.8	-8.0	.166	6.0
2017	32	65	54	5	8	3	1	6	4	26	1	.148	.203	.259	.463	12.1	19.6	.206	2.1
2018	34	65	59	4	7	0	1	9	0	22	0	.119	.119	.169	.288	-42.2	-23.7	.125	3.4
2019	32	53	48	6	9	2	1	6	5	20	0	.188	.264	.292	.556	47.1	46.5	.250	1.8
2020	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2021	30	51	48	3	8	2	1	3	2	24	0	.167	.200	.271	.471	22.8	27.5	.208	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2006	15	15	7	2	0	0	91	43	43	60	7	81.3	4.76	1.648	6.64	4.60	98.1	98.7	0.7
2007	12	11	4	0	0	0	61	32	31	50	10	63.0	4.57	1.460	7.14	5.31	113.9	102.0	0.7
2008	33	33	16	6	2	2	202	75	66	152	14	210.3	3.21	1.274	6.50	3.67	81.2	140.7	5.1
2009	32	32	15	8	2	0	186	77	64	225	20	203.3	3.41	1.230	9.96	3.20	69.7	134.5	4.6
2010	32	32	19	9	2	0	167	75	83	225	14	208.0	3.25	1.202	9.74	3.10	72.2	132.4	4.6
2011	31	31	15	9	0	0	166	74	75	182	20	191.7	3.47	1.257	8.55	3.86	89.8	123.9	3.7
2012	33	33	9	14	3	0	216	110	68	166	25	205.3	4.82	1.383	7.28	4.06	95.9	87.9	0.6
2013	33	33	15	8	1	1	209	89	67	177	19	213.3	3.75	1.294	7.47	3.61	88.2	109.2	2.9
2014	32	32	16	11	1	1	194	60	48	220	16	219.7	2.46	1.102	9.01	2.83	73.6	156.8	5.9
2015	32	32	11	12	1	0	183	76	47	207	16	205.0	3.34	1.122	9.09	2.95	77.7	113.7	2.8
2016	32	32	19	5	2	0	154	55	52	197	21	202.7	2.44	1.016	8.75	3.45	83.0	170.0	6.0
2017	32	32	13	8	1	0	179	87	60	180	26	180.7	4.33	1.323	8.97	4.12	93.8	101.2	2.1
2018	32	32	18	6	0	0	174	67	64	149	24	181.7	3.32	1.310	7.38	4.36	106.4	123.4	3.4
2019	31	31	13	10	0	0	205	85	52	165	26	171.7	4.46	1.497	8.65	4.22	97.4	97.2	1.8
2020	12	12	3	3	0	0	64	35	17	42	11	61.0	5.16	1.328	6.20	5.17	117.2	85.4	0.1
2021	28	28	7	6	0	0	159	74	55	91	25	141.3	4.71	1.514	5.79	5.37	131.9	86.4	0.7

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

458

423

366

RBI

162

.1148

OBP

.1620

SLG

.1749

OPS

.3369

Pitching

G (P)

452

451

87th-most career GS

200

118th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

SHO

2,740

187th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,488

41st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

892

168th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.659

WHIP

1.2781

465th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.17

88th-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	HR	RBI	TB
2019-07-13	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	1	3	5
2017-08-01	AZ @ CHC Gameday	2	2	2	1	2	5
2021-07-19	MIA @ WSH Gameday	3	2	2	1	2	5
2018-07-01	MIN @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	1	3	4
2018-05-29	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2014-05-03	ATH @ BOS Gameday	8.0	1	0	0	2	15	0
2015-07-29	COL @ CHC Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	1	14	1
2010-07-24	BOS @ SEA Gameday	7.2	4	5	4	1	13	1
2010-09-13	BOS @ SEA Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	3	12	0
2014-06-01	TB @ BOS Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	1	12	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× NLCS MVP5× 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.