It was fitting that during the opening ceremony of a Cubs Convention designed to celebrate the 2016 World Series team, chairman Tom Ricketts announced left-hander Jon Lester would be inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
Lester and Jody Davis, a longtime Cubs catcher and key member of the beloved 1984 team, will be the 2026 inductees, the team revealed Friday.<\/p>\n
Lester is considered one of the greatest free agent signings in Cubs history. The Cubs won the Lester sweepstakes in December 2014, selling him on a bright future for the young team. It was a turning point.<\/p>\n
The following season, Lester helped lead the group to their first playoff berth in seven years. And in 2016, he finished second in NL Cy Young voting, with a 19-5 record and 2.44 ERA. He was even better (2.02 ERA) in the postseason, en route to a World Series title.<\/p>\n
In Lester\u2019s six-year Cubs tenure, he made 171 starts, threw four complete games, and owned a 3.64 ERA.<\/p>\n
Lester played one more season after closing his chapter in Chicago and reached the 200-career win threshold. His 2,488 career strikeouts put him at No. 41 on the all-time list.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Red Sox also announced that Lester would be inducted into their team Hall of Fame. Lester spent the first eight and a half seasons of his major-league career with Boston and won a curse-breaking World Series there, too.<\/p>\n
A call from Cooperstown could be next. Lester will appear on the BBWAA ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the first time next winter.<\/p>\n
Davis was a Gold Glover and two-time All-Star in his Cubs tenure, from 1981 to 1988. When the Cubs ended a nearly four-decade-long playoff drought in 1984, Davis finished 10th in NL MVP voting \u2014 his teammate, late Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg, took home the award.<\/p>\n
The Cubs also posthumously honored former broadcaster Vince Lloyd with a place in their Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was fitting that during the opening ceremony of a Cubs Convention designed to celebrate the 2016 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-411974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}