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Rhett Lowder

Age: 24
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #25

Born: March 8, 2002 in Albemarle, NC, United States
MLB debut: August 30, 2024
Drafted: 2023, round 1
College: Wake Forest
High school: North Stanly

dbWAR: 1.3
IP: 127.1
ERA: 6.01
FIP: 4.77
K/9: 7.1
FIP−: 114

Rhett Lowder is a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2026 he struck out 101 batters over 127.1 innings across 28 appearances, 25 of them starts, going 6-12. His ERA of 6.01 is 43.8% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 17th of 20 on his team, and 486th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.77 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.0% of swings (8.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.4%. His 0.5 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, 2026.

FIP4.77

K/97.1

WHIP1.55

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	CIN	28	25	127.1	6	12	0	144	85	101	54	6.01	4.77	1.55	7.1	3.8	144	114	0.5
2024	CIN	6	6	30.2	2	2	0	25	4	22	14	1.17	3.10	1.27	6.5	4.1	29	76	0.8

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	360	311	86	12	43	66	.277	.370	.473	.371	18.3%
vs RHB	221	206	58	6	11	35	.282	.324	.432	.332	15.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Rhett Lowder 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	29.6%	657	93.1	2,262	48.6%	7.2%	168	.280	.794
Slider	26.7%	592	85.1	2,789	44.4%	32.7%	144	.292	.854
Four-Seam Fastball	20.4%	453	93.7	2,267	43.9%	12.4%	106	.264	.795
Changeup	20.3%	450	86.5	1,938	33.3%	23.8%	92	.261	.723
Curveball	2.8%	62	80.8	3,086	41.9%	10.5%	6	—	—

Rhett Lowder'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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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Grayson RodriguezLAA

ERA: 6.02
FIP: 5.01
SO: 85
WAR: 0.1

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Ryan FeltnerCOL

ERA: 5.64
FIP: 5.12
SO: 89
WAR: 0.2

Very close

Patrick CorbinTOR

ERA: 5.51
FIP: 4.64
SO: 63
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Mitch KellerPIT

ERA: 5.29
FIP: 4.55
SO: 89
WAR: 1.0

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.