While he barely kept himself above .500 during his 14-year big league career, the right-hander played an integral role in the early-2000s for a Cubs organization desperately seeking an end to its World Series drought.
As we all know now, they repeatedly fell short of that goal as this year’s club is the best shot we, as fans, have seen at that drought ending in some time. But that’s neither here nor there, for we are here to take a closer look at the numbers of Lieber back in 2001, when he went 20-6 and finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting.