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Josh Lowe

Los Angeles Angels American League WestLF

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #3

Born: February 2, 1998 in Chesapeake, VA, United States
MLB debut: September 8, 2021
Drafted: 2016, round 1
High school: Pope
Salary, 2026: $2.6M

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dbWAR: 4.7
PA: 343
AVG: .209
OBP: .273
SLG: .360
wRC+: 77

Josh Lowe is a left fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 29 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 343 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average was .209, 14.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .360, for an OPS of .633, 12.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 356th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.5 mph off the bat, hit 37.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.6% of them and made contact on 67.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 77 wRC+ puts his offence 23% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -10.9 runs with the bat, +1.0 for the ballpark, +1.2 on the bases, +1.8 on double plays, -2.2 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+77

wOBA.280

ISO.151

BB%7.3%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.5 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	LAA	108	343	65	12	29	10	25	105	.209	.273	.360	.151	.270	7.3%	30.6%	.280	-10.9	77	0.2
2025	TB	108	435	87	11	40	18	33	109	.220	.283	.366	.146	.273	7.6%	25.1%	.286	-10.6	79	0.2
2024	TB	106	387	85	10	34	25	32	123	.241	.302	.391	.150	.338	8.3%	31.8%	.300	-3.8	92	1.0
2023	TB	130	501	136	20	83	32	31	124	.292	.335	.500	.208	.357	6.2%	24.8%	.356	+14.9	126	3.2
2022	TB	51	198	40	2	13	3	15	66	.221	.284	.343	.122	.336	7.6%	33.3%	.278	-5.4	78	0.0
2021	TB	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	50.0%	0.0%	.800	+0.8	465	0.1

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 Josh 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	TB	Wild Card	2	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650

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	55	51	9	0	2	20	.176	.204	.216	.189	36.4%
vs RHP	288	260	56	12	23	85	.215	.286	.388	.297	29.5%

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 210 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.6%
Exit velocity: 87.5
Max exit velo: 109.6
Hard hit: 37.1%
Sweet spot: 35.2%
Launch angle: 17.4°

Barrel rate8.6%

Exit velocity87.5 mph

Hard hit rate37.1%

Contact rate67.8%

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 Josh 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	343	—	—	—	—	—	—	.209	.273	.360	.280
Bases empty	203	187	38	8	8	14	60	.203	.266	.374	.283
Runner on first	80	73	20	2	4	5	21	.274	.329	.384	.319
Runners on	140	124	27	4	21	11	45	.218	.283	.339	.275
RISP	60	51	7	2	17	6	24	.137	.220	.275	.215

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

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Similar players

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

Jarren DuranBOS

wRC+: 69
HR: 20
AVG: .207
WAR: -0.5

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Ramón LaureanoSD

wRC+: 86
HR: 7
AVG: .203
WAR: 0.3

Royce LewisMIN

wRC+: 84
HR: 15
AVG: .227
WAR: 0.6

Ryan McMahonNYY

wRC+: 73
HR: 11
AVG: .213
WAR: 0.1

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.