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Noah Lowry

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 27
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #51

Born: October 10, 1980 in Ventura, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 5, 2003

dbWAR: 6.2
IP: 156.0
ERA: 3.92
FIP: 4.89
K/9: 5.0
FIP−: 109

Noah Lowry was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2007 he struck out 87 batters over 156.0 innings across 26 appearances, 26 of them starts, going 14-8. His ERA of 3.92 was 12.3% lower than the league average of 4.47 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 180th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.89 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.9% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.5%. His 1.1 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP4.89

K/95.0

WHIP1.55

WAR1.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2007	SF	26	26	156.0	14	8	155	68	87	87	3.92	4.89	1.55	5.0	5.0	88	109	1.1
2006	SF	27	27	159.1	7	10	166	84	84	56	4.74	4.97	1.39	4.7	3.2	105	110	1.1
2005	SF	33	33	204.2	13	13	193	86	172	76	3.78	3.89	1.31	7.6	3.3	88	91	3.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2007	SF	30	62	5	1	5	1	15	.088	.103	.175	.088	.098	1.6%	24.2%	.123	-11.0	-44	-0.3
2006	SF	24	57	7	1	2	3	10	.152	.204	.217	.065	.171	5.3%	17.5%	.195	-6.8	6	0.2
2005	SF	32	75	16	0	7	3	12	.271	.302	.373	.102	.333	4.0%	16.0%	.298	-2.0	79	0.8

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. 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	128	111	24	1	12	18	.216	.296	.261	.264	14.1%
vs RHB	566	473	131	11	75	69	.277	.378	.425	.362	12.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .266.

Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 4.87
FIP: 4.73
SO: 59
WAR: 0.9

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ERA: 4.25
FIP: 4.72
SO: 144
WAR: 1.9

Tim ReddingWSH

ERA: 3.64
FIP: 5.17
SO: 47
WAR: 0.3

Miguel BatistaSEA

ERA: 4.29
FIP: 4.52
SO: 133
WAR: 2.0

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.