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Brandon Lowe

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central2B

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 181 lb
Number: #5

Born: July 6, 1994 in Suffolk, VA, United States
MLB debut: August 5, 2018
Drafted: 2015, round 3
College: Maryland
Salary, 2026: $500,000

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dbWAR: 23.8
PA: 656
AVG: .260
OBP: .331
SLG: .493
wRC+: 121

Brandon Lowe is a second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2026 he hit 35 home runs and knocked in 96 RBIs, notching 152 hits across 656 plate appearances in 150 games. His batting average was .260, 6.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .331 clip and slugged .493, for an OPS of .824, 14.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 18 on his team, and 48th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 45.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.7% of them and made contact on 64.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 4.6 dbWAR — +20.2 runs with the bat, -1.6 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +1.4 on double plays, +4.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+121

wOBA.356

ISO.233

BB%9.5%

WAR4.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +43.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	PIT	150	656	152	35	96	2	62	189	.260	.331	.493	.233	.319	9.5%	28.8%	.356	+20.2	121	4.6
2025	TB	134	553	130	31	83	3	38	149	.256	.307	.477	.221	.297	6.9%	26.9%	.335	+9.2	113	3.1
2024	TB	107	425	94	21	58	5	33	112	.244	.311	.473	.229	.287	7.8%	26.4%	.336	+8.4	117	2.0
2023	TB	108	436	87	21	68	7	50	119	.231	.328	.443	.212	.275	11.5%	27.3%	.335	+5.6	112	2.5
2022	TB	65	266	52	8	25	1	27	61	.221	.308	.383	.162	.263	10.2%	22.9%	.308	-0.7	100	1.1
2021	TB	149	615	132	39	99	7	68	167	.247	.340	.523	.277	.280	11.1%	27.2%	.366	+25.4	143	5.1
2020	TB	56	224	52	14	37	3	25	58	.269	.362	.554	.285	.309	11.2%	25.9%	.387	+12.5	145	2.2
2019	TB	82	327	80	17	51	5	25	113	.270	.336	.514	.243	.377	7.6%	34.6%	.357	+9.6	127	2.4
2018	TB	42	148	30	6	25	2	16	38	.233	.324	.450	.217	.279	10.8%	25.7%	.339	+2.5	117	0.7

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 batting

Postseason Brandon Lowe's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	TB	ALDS	4	18	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	TB	Postseason total	20	82	76	7	9	0	4	8	6	28	.118	.183	.276	.459
		Wild Card	2	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500
		ALDS	5	22	18	0	0	0	0	1	4	7	.000	.182	.000	.182
		ALCS	7	27	26	4	4	0	1	1	1	10	.154	.185	.269	.454
		World Series	6	25	24	3	3	0	3	6	1	10	.125	.160	.500	.660
2019 Post	TB	Postseason total	5	20	19	1	4	1	1	1	1	10	.211	.250	.421	.671
		Wild Card	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	4	17	16	1	4	1	1	1	1	8	.250	.294	.500	.794
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	29	120	113	8	13	1	5	9	7	47	.115	.167	.257	.423

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 he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. 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 LHP	211	193	43	8	13	78	.223	.270	.378	.283	37.0%
vs RHP	444	390	109	27	49	110	.279	.360	.551	.391	24.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 402 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 11.7%
Exit velocity: 91.0
Max exit velo: 111.1
Hard hit: 45.8%
Sweet spot: 36.1%
Launch angle: 15.8°

Barrel rate11.7%

Exit velocity91.0 mph

Hard hit rate45.8%

Contact rate64.5%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Brandon Lowe hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	656	—	—	—	—	—	—	.260	.331	.493	.356
Bases empty	361	326	95	21	21	35	101	.291	.360	.555	.394
Runner on first	147	130	21	5	14	16	52	.162	.259	.292	.255
Runners on	294	257	57	14	75	27	87	.222	.296	.416	.310
RISP	147	127	36	9	61	11	35	.283	.333	.543	.365

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 119
HR: 12
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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.