John Darren Lackey plays baseball for Chicago Cubs as baseball starter pitcher. He was born in Abilene, Texas on 23rd October, 1978. He started his MLB career with Anaheim Angeles. He was drafted in 2009 MLB pick. John Lackey currently plays for the Chicago Cubs. In his career he has played for Anaheim Angeles, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs. He was selected in All Star games as well as played American League. At present, John Lackey is earning salary of $16 Millions.
Early Life and Career:
John Lackey started playing at very young age. He played at Dixie little league in Abilene before joining his High School. He went to Abilene High School where he played baseball, football and basketball. He was selected on all State Level in basketball and also played district level basketball in junior years. In his first season of college career he played with University of Texas at Arlington. Here, his position was as a baseman. He later learnt to pitch in Kansas Jayhawks Summer League. He also represented Grayson County Team of Denysn Texas in Junior College World Series Champion.
MLB Career and Professional Achievements
John started played his first season of MLB for Anaheim Angeles. He was very quick in ascending the top of the ladder. This let him to earn the title of Angel’s Minor League Pitcher of the year. In the 2002 season, he was also named as the Best Pitching Prospect of the Pacific Post League. On September, 16 2002 he was the winning pitcher of American League Wild Card. From start of Major League in 2002 to the 2016, his timeline reveals marvelous achievement about him. This is not the only thing. In the year 2011 he faced worst injury of elbow strain. Due t o this he spent many matches on bench. He suffered many complications of medical and legal type. In the year 2012, he had Tommy Johns Surgery. This was revealed by Lackey’s Coach in a press conference. In his career, John has a win loss record of 166-127, he made 1,969 strikeouts, earned an average of 3.93 with 2487.1 innings pitched.
John was two times World Series Champion, once in 2002 and then 2013. He was All Star as well as AL ERA Leader in the year 2007. John Lackey is perceived as a superstitious professional athlete. This is well evident from an article published in the Onion. It was titled as Superstitious, John Lackey has to build. The article was basically a satire.
Personal Life
As the Showbiz appearance is concerned, he was appeared in a music video in 2011. He was with his teammates Tim Wakefield and Josh Becket. John Lackey has a well balanced and established personal life. He was married in 2009. It was the second marriage of Kristina. She had two children from first marriage too. The couple has a daughter together. Later in 2011 he filed a divorce for her wife. His wife Krista was a cancer patient. Krista had also gone through chemotherapy in the March, 2011. The divorce was finalized in 2012.
| Net Worth 2021: | 60 million |
