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Derek Lowe

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #32

Born: June 1, 1973 in Dearborn, MI, United States
MLB debut: April 26, 1997

dbWAR: 24.9
IP: 13.0
ERA: 9.00
FIP: 5.97
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 154

Derek Lowe was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2013 he struck out 8 batters over 13.0 innings across 9 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 9.00 was 132.8% higher than the league average of 3.87. Stripping out defence, his 5.97 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.7% of swings (7.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.0%. His -0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2013 regular season.

FIP5.97

K/95.5

WHIP1.46

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	TEX	9	0	13.0	1	0	0	16	13	8	3	9.00	5.97	1.46	5.5	2.1	233	154	-0.3
2012	CLE/NYY	38	21	142.2	9	11	1	180	81	55	51	5.11	4.37	1.62	3.5	3.2	127	109	0.6
2011	ATL	34	34	187.0	9	17	0	212	105	137	70	5.05	3.70	1.51	6.6	3.4	128	94	2.6
2010	ATL	33	33	193.2	16	12	0	204	86	136	61	4.00	3.89	1.37	6.3	2.8	98	95	2.7
2009	ATL	34	34	194.2	15	10	0	232	101	111	63	4.67	4.06	1.52	5.1	2.9	108	94	2.7
2008	LAD	34	34	211.0	14	11	0	194	76	147	45	3.24	3.26	1.13	6.3	1.9	75	75	4.8
2007	LAD	33	32	199.1	12	14	0	194	86	147	59	3.88	3.97	1.27	6.6	2.7	87	89	3.5
2006	LAD	35	34	218.0	16	8	0	221	88	123	55	3.63	3.68	1.27	5.1	2.3	80	81	4.6
2005	LAD	35	35	222.0	12	15	0	223	89	146	55	3.61	4.16	1.25	5.9	2.2	84	97	2.8

Batting Regular season


2012	CLE	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.443	+0.4	191	0.1
2011	ATL	32	65	9	1	7	0	4	18	.173	.232	.308	.135	.242	6.2%	27.7%	.245	-3.8	48	0.4
2010	ATL	32	69	8	0	3	0	5	14	.151	.224	.226	.075	.205	7.2%	20.3%	.213	-6.1	22	0.3
2009	ATL	31	70	12	0	1	0	4	16	.222	.276	.222	.000	.316	5.7%	22.9%	.236	-5.5	35	0.4
2008	LAD	32	75	9	0	5	0	3	20	.138	.176	.138	.000	.200	4.0%	26.7%	.151	-11.2	-26	-0.1
2007	LAD	30	71	7	0	1	0	5	17	.119	.185	.119	.000	.163	7.0%	23.9%	.153	-10.9	-24	-0.1
2006	LAD	33	79	6	0	3	0	4	19	.094	.145	.125	.031	.130	5.1%	24.1%	.131	-13.7	-37	-0.2
2005	LAD	32	76	10	0	4	1	2	17	.154	.179	.185	.031	.208	2.6%	22.4%	.166	-10.2	-12	0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Derek Lowe's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	NYY	Postseason total	3	0	2.0	0	0	3	3	2	0	1	13.50	1.50	4.5
		ALDS	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
		ALCS	2	0	1.2	0	0	3	3	2	0	1	16.20	1.80	5.4
2010 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	2	11.2	0	2	6	3	1	6	14	2.31	1.03	10.8
2008 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	16.1	1	1	19	6	3	3	12	3.31	1.35	6.6
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	7	2	1	1	6	3.00	1.33	9.0
		NLCS	2	2	10.1	0	1	12	4	2	2	6	3.48	1.35	5.2
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	5.1	0	0	6	4	2	2	6	6.75	1.50	10.1
2005–2013		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	9	6	35.1	1	3	34	16	8	11	33	4.08	1.27	8.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Derek Lowe's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	4	4	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2008 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	7	5	1	2	2	.200	.429	.200	.629
		NLDS	1	3	1	0	2	0	.000	.667	.000	.667
		NLCS	2	4	4	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	2	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	6	13	10	1	2	5	.100	.250	.100	.350

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	22	19	7	2	1	0	.368	.455	.789	.530	0.0%
vs RHB	35	33	9	1	2	8	.273	.314	.394	.317	22.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Derek Lowe throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	79.9%	159	87.8	1,912	40.9%	17.4%	40	.275	.841
Slider	11.6%	23	80.1	745	52.2%	15.4%	7	—	—
Cutter	6.5%	13	85.3	1,129	30.8%	0.0%	4	—	—

Derek Lowe's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.