With the news of his retirement from baseball still fresh in my mind, I was thinking about Lester today. I wondered how he performed in games I attended. I assumed I had seen him pitch quite a bit. So, I flipped through my scorebook so to see how he did while I was keeping score.
Ok. Two? I only saw him pitch twice? Well, I only scored a game he pitched twice? That's like John Smoltz level viewership. I'm not even sure how that happened. But, that's what we have.
So, even though it's not exactly a representative sample, how did he do in the games I scored?
Well, he had a .500 record. A bit below his Boston career average. His 2.67 ERA was a good clip. Even better than his career numbers would suggest.
What if we extrapolated those number over a full 32-start season? Obviously his percentages would be the same. a 16-win campaign would be the third highest of his career. The 208 strikeouts would be a solid accomplishment, good for fourth highest of his career.
So I think it's fair to say I pretty much saw the standard Jon Lester in my two outings. Nothing too exciting, but two solid starts.
How did Lester do when you were in the park?
I saw him pitch once. It was his rookie season, 2006, in Kansas City. He was incredibly inconsistent that season. Unfortunately, I saw one of his down games. He threw five innings, gave up four runs, six hits and three walks. He struck out five, but took the loss.
ReplyDeleteAww, that's too bad.
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