A significant retirement happened in Baseball as Jon Lester is calling it a career.

A talented southpaw with a devastating cutter, Lester began his career with the Red Sox in 2006, where he went to three All-Star Games and helped Boston win the 2007 World Series.  After a brief stop in Oakland, Lester signed with the Cubs, where he went to two more All-Star Games and was the runner-up for the Cy Young in 2016.  That year he led Chicago to their first World Series in over a century, winning the NLCS MVP along the way.  Lester concluded his career with Washington and St. Louis last year.

Lester retires with 200 Wins against 117 Losses with 2,488 Strikeouts.  He will be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2027.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Jon Lester the best in his post-playing career.

Terry Kennedy played the first three years of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals before he was traded in 1981 to San Diego.  It was a great opportunity for the Catcher, who now had the chance to play every day.

In his first season with the Padres, Kennedy batted .301 and was named to the All-Star Team.  Kennedy was not an All-Star in 1982, but he had his best power season, posting personal bests in Doubles (42) and Home Runs (21) while again flirting with .300.  He would show moderate power, hitting at least 10 Home Runs from 1983 to 1986, adding two more All-Stars to his resume, with a Silver Slugger coming his way in 1983.  Kennedy finished tenth in MVP voting in 1983, also played a large part in the Padres National League Pennant in 1984.  He made history in that year's World Series, as after he drove in two runs in Game 1, he joined his dad.  (Bob) as the first father-son combination to have RBIs in World Series competition.  Kennedy was also a respected defensive Catcher who had a couple of years in San Diego that would have been Gold Glove worthy.

Kennedy was traded to Baltimore in 1986, with the Catcher leaving behind a .274 Batting Average, 817 Hits, and 76 Home Runs.

Taken number one overall in the 1975 Amateur Draft, Gene Richards debuted two years later for the Padres with a solid rookie year, batting .290 and setting a then-rookie record for Stolen Bases (56).  

Richards kept it up for the Padres as a decent leadoff hitter, swiping more bases and batting over .300 twice, 1978 and 1980.  He would also notably lead the NL in Triples in 1981 (12), Singles in 1980 (155), and defensively led all the NL Leftfielders in Assists.

Richards bolted San Diego for San Francisco as a Free Agent in 1984, but he never performed as well for the Giants as he did as a Padre.  With San Diego, Richards batted .291 with 242 Stolen Bases.

An original Padre, Nate Colbert, was plucked from the Houston Astros in the Expansion Draft. 

Colbert became the Padres starting First Baseman, and while he was not the best contact hitter, he was good with the power aspect.  Over his first five years in San Diego, Colbert hit at least 22 Home Runs, with seasons of 38 in 1970 and 1972.   Colbert was an All-Star three straight years (1971-73) and finished eighth in MVP voting in the middle year.

Back problems reduced his effectiveness, and after a poor 1974 season, he was traded to Detroit.  Colbert accumulated 163 Home Runs with the Padres.