Jon Lieber

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornApril 2, 1970 · Council Bluffs, IA, USA

MLB debutMay 15, 1994

Final gameSeptember 5, 2008

Seasons14 (1994–2008)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1994–1998; Chicago Cubs 1999–2002; New York Yankees 2004; Philadelphia Phillies 2005–2007; Chicago Cubs 2008

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified pitchers

2.4

38.6

65.1

SHO

62.7

196

65.1

54.2

100

16.9

28.9

168.0

8.4

ERA

4.93

15.7

WHIP

1.310

55.4

K/9

5.36

32.5

FIP

4.54

36.1

FIP-

98.3

ERA+

93.8

20.5

sWAR

0.9

of 84 qualified 2006 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.2

47.6

sWAR

23.6

94.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1994	17	42	39	3	4	1	0	1	14	.103	.125	.128	.253	-48.7	-34.1	.119	1.6
1995	21	21	21	0	1	0	0	0	14	.048	.048	.048	.095	-96.9	-75.0	.043	-1.1
1996	51	42	36	4	7	3	3	3	11	.194	.256	.278	.534	38.9	39.6	.249	2.1
1997	33	64	58	1	7	2	8	4	23	.121	.177	.155	.333	-20.7	-12.4	.163	1.4
1998	29	58	48	3	8	1	1	3	20	.167	.216	.188	.403	1.0	7.1	.193	2.1
1999	31	71	58	8	7	1	2	5	23	.121	.188	.138	.325	-19.2	-15.1	.162	2.9
2000	36	94	82	3	18	4	4	2	28	.220	.238	.268	.506	25.3	30.1	.228	3.0
2001	35	87	76	3	12	2	2	2	22	.158	.179	.184	.364	-9.8	-2.7	.166	3.2
2002	21	48	43	2	7	1	0	1	10	.163	.182	.186	.368	-12.5	-1.0	.170	1.9
2004	27	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	75.4	76.5	.298	2.2
2005	36	78	73	7	7	2	4	1	29	.096	.107	.123	.230	-63.6	-40.5	.104	2.2
2006	28	63	53	0	5	0	0	4	28	.094	.158	.094	.252	-43.1	-33.6	.130	0.9
2007	14	22	17	2	1	0	1	4	8	.059	.238	.059	.297	-7.8	-17.6	.183	0.6
2008	26	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.9	-100.0	.000	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1994	17	17	6	7	0	1	0	116	45	25	71	12	108.7	3.73	1.298	5.88	3.91	91.2	115.1	1.6
1995	21	12	4	7	0	0	0	103	51	14	45	7	72.7	6.32	1.610	5.57	3.82	89.5	67.6	-1.1
1996	51	15	9	5	1	0	0	156	63	28	94	19	142.0	3.99	1.296	5.96	4.16	96.1	108.5	2.1
1997	33	32	11	14	0	1	0	193	94	51	160	23	188.3	4.49	1.296	7.65	3.79	88.6	95.3	1.4
1998	29	28	8	14	1	2	0	182	78	40	138	23	171.0	4.11	1.298	7.26	3.96	92.3	104.4	2.1
1999	31	31	10	11	0	3	1	226	92	46	186	28	203.3	4.07	1.338	8.23	3.73	82.5	111.0	2.9
2000	35	35	12	11	0	6	1	248	123	54	192	36	251.0	4.41	1.203	6.88	4.16	92.5	101.9	3.0
2001	34	34	20	6	0	5	1	226	98	41	148	25	232.3	3.80	1.149	5.73	3.75	90.7	108.9	3.2
2002	21	21	6	8	0	3	0	153	58	12	87	15	141.0	3.70	1.170	5.55	3.30	82.7	107.9	1.9
2004	27	27	14	8	0	0	0	216	85	18	102	20	176.7	4.33	1.325	5.20	3.81	83.5	105.5	2.2
2005	35	35	17	13	0	1	0	223	102	41	149	33	218.3	4.20	1.209	6.14	4.22	97.2	103.4	2.2
2006	27	27	9	11	0	2	1	196	92	24	100	27	168.0	4.93	1.310	5.36	4.54	98.3	93.8	0.9
2007	14	12	3	6	0	1	1	91	41	22	54	7	78.0	4.73	1.449	6.23	3.92	87.0	95.3	0.6
2008	26	1	2	3	0	0	0	59	21	6	27	10	46.7	4.05	1.393	5.21	5.25	116.4	111.3	0.6

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

405

699

612

RBI

234

.1389

OBP

.1786

SLG

.1667

OPS

.3453

Pitching

G (P)

401

327

277th-most career GS

131

369th-most career W

124

313th-most career L

SHO

2,198

349th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,553

214th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

422

ERA

4.271

WHIP

1.2784

466th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.36

312th-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	BB	TB
1999-05-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	1	3
2000-06-28	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	0	3
1997-08-03	COL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	2
2000-09-10	HOU @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	2
1998-04-26	PIT @ SD Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-07-08	CWS @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	12	2
2000-05-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	8.0	2	1	1	1	12	1
1999-09-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	11	0
2007-06-09	PHI @ KC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	11	0
1997-06-30	CWS @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	10	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.