Jon Lester

Bats L Throws L6'4" 249 lbBorn 1984 Tacoma, USADebut 2006Team STL5x All-StarDraft 2002 R2 #57 Boston Red Sox, Bellarmine Prep HS (Puyallup, WA)

Awards: Hutch Award, NLCS MVP

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2021	STL	30	51	3	8	2	1	3	0	2	24	0.167	0.200	0.271	0.471	27.1
2020	CHC	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	CHC	32	53	6	9	2	1	6	0	5	20	0.188	0.264	0.292	0.556	44.8
2018	CHC	34	65	4	7	0	1	9	0	0	22	0.119	0.119	0.169	0.288	-45.7
2017	CHC	32	65	5	8	3	1	6	1	4	26	0.148	0.203	0.259	0.463	13.3
2016	CHC	33	75	3	6	3	0	6	0	6	18	0.102	0.185	0.153	0.337	-6.7
2015	CHC	32	71	6	4	0	0	0	0	3	30	0.065	0.108	0.065	0.172	-69.4
2014	OAK	32	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-129.0
2013	BOS	33	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-129.2
2012	BOS	33	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-127.5
2011	BOS	31	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-127.7
2010	BOS	32	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.000	0.200	0.000	0.200	-31.8
2009	BOS	32	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-123.0
2008	BOS	33	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-124.7
2007	BOS	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006	BOS	15	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	-118.7
Career		458	423	27	42	10	4	31	1	21	162	0.115	0.162	0.175	0.337	-20.4

Pitching

Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	BF	HR	BB	SO	PITCH+
2021	STL	7	6	4.71	28	28	141.3	627	25	55	91	87.6	99.3	86.9
2020	CHC	3	3	5.16	12	12	61.0	265	11	17	42	96.1	98.4	94.5
2019	CHC	13	10	4.46	31	31	171.7	764	26	52	165	92.9	97.8	90.8
2018	CHC	18	6	3.32	32	32	181.7	761	24	64	149	100.0	100.0	100.0
2017	CHC	13	8	4.33	32	32	180.7	763	26	60	180	101.2	99.3	100.5
2016	CHC	19	5	2.44	32	32	202.7	796	21	52	197	116.1	101.8	117.9
2015	CHC	11	12	3.34	32	32	205.0	828	16	47	207	108.7	100.1	108.8
2014	OAK	16	11	2.46	32	32	219.7	885	16	48	220	110.8
2013	BOS	15	8	3.75	33	33	213.3	903	19	67	177	101.1
2012	BOS	9	14	4.82	33	33	205.3	876	25	68	166	96.8
2011	BOS	15	9	3.47	31	31	191.7	799	20	75	182	104.4
2010	BOS	19	9	3.25	32	32	208.0	861	14	83	225	111.9
2009	BOS	15	8	3.41	32	32	203.3	843	20	64	225	110.8
2008	BOS	16	6	3.21	33	33	210.3	874	14	66	152	108.7
2007	BOS	4	0	4.57	12	11	63.0	275	10	31	50	101.7
2006	BOS	7	2	4.76	15	15	81.3	367	7	43	60	93.9
Career		200	117	3.66	452	451	2740.0	11487	294	892	2488	103.8		103.6

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2021	51	86.0	0.5	8.0	40.0	34.5	18.2	0.178	0.287	0.219
2019	53	86.3	4.9	0.0	21.4	30.0	16.0	0.147	0.215	0.207	22.0
2018	65	88.7	0.8	6.3	32.6	27.9	22.6	0.180	0.261	0.193	20.2
2017	65	88.5	-1.3	7.1	31.4	33.0	20.2	0.142	0.254	0.205	23.1
2016	75	88.7	-0.1	5.3	27.5	27.3	26.3	0.158	0.266	0.228	21.9
2015	71	90.1	-2.1	4.5	26.3	30.3	36.4	0.087	0.124	0.124	22.0

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2021	STL	P	28	141	9	17	0	1	1.000	-0.5
2020	CHC	P	12	61	2	4	1	0	0.857	-0.5
2019	CHC	P	31	172	5	5	1	1	0.909	-2.0
2018	CHC	P	32	182	9	14	0	0	1.000	-0.0
2017	CHC	P	32	181	14	23	0	1	1.000	-0.7
2016	CHC	P	32	203	18	17	0	1	1.000	+1.8
2015	CHC	P	32	205	10	17	3	1	0.900	+0.1
2014	OAK	P	32	220	8	16	2	1	0.923
2013	BOS	P	33	213	12	18	2	1	0.938
2012	BOS	P	33	205	14	21	2	3	0.946
2011	BOS	P	31	192	9	19	1	2	0.966
2010	BOS	P	32	208	5	35	3	2	0.930
2009	BOS	P	32	203	7	24	2	1	0.939
2008	BOS	P	33	210	19	21	2	3	0.952
2007	BOS	P	12	63	6	4	1	0	0.909
2006	BOS	P	15	81	0	11	0	0	1.000

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA
2007	AAA	Pawtucket Red Sox	Pit	306	71.2 IP, 17% K	3.92
2007	AA	Portland Sea Dogs	Pit	27	6.0 IP, 15% K	1.50
2007	A	Greenville Drive	Pit	51	13.0 IP, 29% K	2.08
2006	AAA	Pawtucket Red Sox	Pit	207	46.2 IP, 21% K	2.73
2005	AA	Portland Sea Dogs	Pit	602	148.1 IP, 27% K	2.61
2004	A+	Sarasota Red Sox	Pit	382	90.1 IP, 25% K	4.30
2003	A	Augusta GreenJackets	Pit	452	106.0 IP, 16% K	3.65

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2021	0.235	0.199	0.205	0.211
2019	0.192	0.300	0.320	0.223
2018	0.056	0.180	0.157	0.133
2017	0.239	0.192	0.180	0.233
2016	0.237	0.145	0.156	0.178
2015	0.000	0.118	0.097	0.114

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	H	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2018	1	1	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
2017	3	4	1	0	2	0.250	0.250	0.250	0.500
2016	6	7	0	2	4	0.000	0.222	0.000	0.222
2015	2	4	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
2014	1	0	0	0	0
2013	5	3	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
2009	1	0	0	0	0
2008	4	0	0	0	0
2007	3	2	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Career	26	21	1	2	11	0.048	0.130	0.048	0.178

Postseason pitching

Year	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
2018	0	0	1.50	1	1	6.0	4	0	1	9	0.83
2017	0	0	1.88	3	2	14.3	6	1	8	7	0.98
2016	3	1	2.02	6	5	35.7	27	3	6	30	0.93
2015	0	2	4.50	2	2	14.0	13	3	2	14	1.07
2014	0	0	7.36	1	1	7.3	8	0	2	5	1.36
2013	4	1	1.56	5	5	34.7	25	3	8	29	0.95
2009	0	1	4.50	1	1	6.0	4	1	4	5	1.33
2008	1	2	2.36	4	4	26.7	24	3	5	26	1.09
2007	1	0	1.93	3	1	9.3	6	1	4	8	1.07
Career	9	7	2.51	26	22	154.0	117	15	40	133	1.02

Salaries

Year	Team	Salary
2016	CHC	$25,000,000
2015	CHC	$20,000,000
2014	BOS	$13,000,000
2013	BOS	$11,625,000
2012	BOS	$7,625,000
2011	BOS	$5,750,000
2010	BOS	$3,750,000
2009	BOS	$1,000,000
2008	BOS	$421,500
2007	BOS	$384,000

Public salary records run through 2016; current contract data is on the roadmap.