Jon Lester Career Strikeouts Per Game Overview

Jon Lester's Strikeouts Per Game was 5.5 for his 16-year Major League Baseball career. 2009 was his best season when his Strikeouts Per Game was 7.03 and his worst season was 2021 when his Strikeouts Per Game was 3.25. Jon Lester outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (1.8310759784481), Millenial (2.0738168258341), Y (3.5735457380756), mlb (1.8397048214166), and SP (2.5134743194636) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts per game is a metric that shows, on average, how many strikeouts a pitcher or team's pitchers throw per game. It's caluclated by dividing strikeouts by games played for a given period. Generally, for Strikeouts Per Game, higher is better. (Source)

Jon Lester Lifetime Strikeouts Per Game

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Jon Lester
Strikeouts Per Game
Career5.5
Season Avg.5.31
162 Game Avg.5.5
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Jon Lester Strikeouts Per Game By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jon Lester's yearly Strikeouts Per Game for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Jon Lester Strikeouts Per Game By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Jon Lester's career Strikeouts Per Game changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Strikeouts Per Game Jon Lester had at that season in his career.
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Jon Lester Strikeouts Per Game By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jon Lester and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts Per Game for each season played by Jon Lester. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Jon Lester Strikeouts Per Game Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jon Lester Strikeouts Per Game stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Jon Lester career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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