Since lester basically makes more per year than the entire brewer rotation combined, that's a low hurdle to clear. Fact is Lester got lucky a few early inning abs with runners on everywhere didn't send him to the showers much earlier when he was battling control. 0 runs is nice no matter how you get there, but that was far from a solid start just by looking at him pitch. I think his back issue from early September is still lingering... You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately style points are not part of the game. As you stated, keeping runs off the board is the objective of the game regardless of how you get there. The bold part could describe the majority of starts from our rotation. If Lester is garbage then what do we have?