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Mike Lowell

Michael Averett Lowell

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: February 24, 1974 in San Juan, P.R.
High School: Coral Gables HS (Coral Gables, FL)
School: Florida International University (Miami, FL)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 20th round of the 1995 amateur draft.
Signed June 8, 1995. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 13, 1998 (Age 24)
Teams (by GP): Marlins/RedSox/Yankees 1998-2010
Agents: ACES [*]
Final Game: October 2, 2010 (Age 36)
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All-Time Rank (among batters): #481. Cecil Travis… #482. Kevin Mitchell… #483. Ken Caminiti… #484. MIKE LOWELL… #485. Ben Zobrist… #486. Grady Sizemore… #487. Walker Cooper… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1998 24 NYY AL 8 15 15 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .267 .267 .267 .533 42 4 0 0 0 0 0 /5D
1999 25 FLA NL 97 344 308 32 78 15 0 12 47 0 0 26 69 .253 .317 .419 .736 90 129 8 5 0 5 1 5
2000 26 FLA NL 140 583 508 73 137 38 0 22 91 4 0 54 75 .270 .344 .474 .818 110 241 4 9 0 11 4 *5
2001 27 FLA NL 146 614 551 65 156 37 0 18 100 1 2 43 79 .283 .340 .448 .789 106 247 9 10 0 10 3 *5
2002 28 FLA NL 160 678 597 88 165 44 0 24 92 4 3 65 92 .276 .346 .471 .816 116 281 16 4 0 11 5 *5 AS
2003 29 FLA NL 130 557 492 76 136 27 1 32 105 3 1 56 78 .276 .350 .530 .881 128 261 14 3 0 6 6 *5/D AS,MVP-11,SS
2004 30 FLA NL 158 671 598 87 175 44 1 27 85 5 1 64 77 .293 .365 .505 .870 127 302 17 6 0 3 8 *5/D AS
2005 31 FLA NL 150 558 500 56 118 36 1 8 58 4 0 46 58 .236 .298 .360 .658 77 180 14 2 1 9 1 *5/4 GG
2006 32 BOS AL 153 631 573 79 163 47 1 20 80 2 2 47 61 .284 .339 .475 .814 104 272 22 4 0 7 5 *5
2007 33 BOS AL 154 653 589 79 191 37 2 21 120 3 2 53 71 .324 .378 .501 .879 124 295 19 3 0 8 4 *5 AS,MVP-5
2008 34 BOS AL 113 468 419 58 115 27 0 17 73 2 2 38 61 .274 .338 .461 .798 104 193 14 5 0 6 2 *5/D
2009 35 BOS AL 119 484 445 54 129 29 1 17 75 2 1 33 61 .290 .337 .474 .811 106 211 24 1 0 5 5 5/D
2010 36 BOS AL 73 244 218 23 52 13 0 5 26 0 0 23 34 .239 .307 .367 .674 79 80 9 0 0 3 1 3D/5
13 Yrs 1601 6500 5813 771 1619 394 7 223 952 30 14 548 817 .279 .342 .464 .805 108 2696 170 52 1 84 45
162 Game Avg. 162 658 588 78 164 40 1 23 96 3 1 55 83 .279 .342 .464 .805 108 273 17 5 0 8 5
FLA (7 yrs) 981 4005 3554 477 965 241 3 143 578 21 7 354 528 .272 .339 .462 .801 109 1641 82 39 1 55 28
BOS (5 yrs) 612 2480 2244 293 650 153 4 80 374 9 7 194 288 .290 .346 .468 .814 108 1051 88 13 0 29 17
NYY (1 yr) 8 15 15 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .267 .267 .267 .533 42 4 0 0 0 0 0
NL (7 yrs) 981 4005 3554 477 965 241 3 143 578 21 7 354 528 .272 .339 .462 .801 109 1641 82 39 1 55 28
AL (6 yrs) 620 2495 2259 294 654 153 4 80 374 9 7 194 289 .290 .345 .467 .812 107 1055 88 13 0 29 17

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1998 24 NYY AL 8 15 -1 -0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 1 0.1 .502 .500 -0.1 0.1 -1 /5D
1999 25 FLA NL 97 344 -7 -1 -1 -1 1 -9 -1.0 9 0 0.0 .491 .494 0.1 -0.0 1 $201,000 5
2000 26 FLA NL 140 583 3 -0 -0 1 2 6 0.5 16 21 2.0 .504 .503 1.9 0.3 20 $255,000 *5
2001 27 FLA NL 146 614 3 -1 -1 6 2 9 0.9 17 26 2.5 .506 .506 1.9 0.8 19 $500,000 *5
2002 28 FLA NL 160 678 11 -2 -2 -0 2 9 0.9 19 28 2.7 .506 .506 2.8 0.2 28 $2,300,000 *5 AS
2003 29 FLA NL 130 557 16 1 -3 -5 2 11 1.1 15 26 2.5 .508 .507 3.1 -0.3 31 $3,700,000 *5/D AS,MVP-11,SS
2004 30 FLA NL 158 671 25 -2 -2 1 2 23 2.3 18 41 4.0 .515 .514 4.0 0.3 40 $6,500,000 *5/D AS
2005 31 FLA NL 150 558 -17 -1 -2 -7 2 -25 -2.6 15 -10 -1.1 .483 .484 -0.4 -0.5 -3 $7,500,000 *5/4 GG
2006 32 BOS AL 153 631 5 -2 -2 5 2 8 1.0 22 30 2.9 .505 .505 2.4 0.8 25 $9,000,000 *5
2007 33 BOS AL 154 653 22 -2 -1 5 2 26 2.7 22 47 4.6 .516 .515 4.2 0.8 42 $9,000,000 *5 AS,MVP-5
2008 34 BOS AL 113 468 3 -3 -2 6 1 5 0.7 16 21 2.2 .505 .503 1.5 0.9 15 $12,500,000 *5/D
2009 35 BOS AL 119 484 1 -2 -4 -15 0 -19 -1.7 16 -3 -0.3 .484 .488 1.2 -1.3 12 $12,500,000 5/D
2010 36 BOS AL 73 244 -6 -1 -2 3 -4 -10 -0.9 8 -1 -0.2 .486 .494 -0.5 -0.1 -4 $12,500,000 3D/5
13 Seasons 1601 6500 58 -17 -21 1 13 34 3.8 194 228 21.9 .502 .502 22.1 1.9 227 $76,456,000
FLA (7 yrs) 981 4005 34 -6 -11 -4 12 24 2.1 109 133 12.6 .502 .502 13.4 0.7 137 $20,956,000
BOS (5 yrs) 612 2480 26 -10 -10 4 1 10 1.7 84 94 9.2 .501 .501 8.8 1.1 90 $55,500,000
NYY (1 yr) 8 15 -1 -0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 1 0.1 .502 .500 -0.1 0.1 -1

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2003 29 FLA NL NLDS SFG W 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2003 29 FLA NL NLCS CHC W 7 23 20 5 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 4 .200 .304 .500 .804 10 0 0 0 0 1
2003 29 FLA NL WS NYY W 6 25 23 1 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 .217 .280 .261 .541 6 0 0 0 0 0
2007 33 BOS AL ALDS LAA W 3 11 9 1 3 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 .333 .364 .556 .919 5 1 0 0 1 0
2007 33 BOS AL ALCS CLE W 7 32 27 3 9 2 0 1 8 0 0 2 3 .333 .375 .519 .894 14 1 1 0 2 0
2007 33 BOS AL WS COL W 4 18 15 6 6 3 0 1 4 1 0 3 1 .400 .500 .800 1.300 12 0 0 0 0 1
2008 34 BOS AL ALDS LAA W 2 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .111 .000 .111 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 35 BOS AL ALDS LAA L 3 11 10 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .200 .273 .200 .473 2 1 0 0 0 0
4 Yrs (8 Series) 34 132 115 17 29 8 0 4 21 1 0 13 15 .252 .326 .426 .752 49 3 1 0 3 2
1 NLDS 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 ALDS 8 31 27 2 5 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 3 .185 .258 .259 .517 7 2 0 0 1 0
1 ALCS 7 32 27 3 9 2 0 1 8 0 0 2 3 .333 .375 .519 .894 14 1 1 0 2 0
1 NLCS 7 23 20 5 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 4 .200 .304 .500 .804 10 0 0 0 0 1
2 WS 10 43 38 7 11 4 0 1 6 1 0 5 4 .289 .372 .474 .846 18 0 0 0 0 1

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1998 NYY AL 24 3B 7 3 3 36.0 7 2 5 0 1 1.000 1 43 1.75 1.00 .949 2.55 2.51
1998 NYY AL 24 DH 1 0
1999 FLA NL 25 3B 83 81 73 716.1 206 59 143 4 12 .981 -1 -2 2.54 2.43 .953 2.69 2.66
2000 FLA NL 26 3B 136 135 130 1191.1 374 102 260 12 19 .968 1 1 2.73 2.66 .950 2.63 2.61
2001 FLA NL 27 3B 144 142 135 1250.2 377 107 261 9 35 .976 6 6 2.65 2.56 .950 2.57 2.54
2002 FLA NL 28 3B 159 159 146 1400.1 450 150 286 14 36 .969 -0 -0 2.80 2.74 .957 2.71 2.69 AS
2003 FLA NL 29 3B 128 128 112 1109.2 336 84 243 9 27 .973 4 -5 5 -5 2.65 2.55 .955 2.74 2.72 AS,MVP-11,SS
2003 FLA NL 29 DH 2 2 AS,MVP-11,SS
2004 FLA NL 30 3B 154 153 135 1326.0 396 117 272 7 30 .982 4 1 3 1 2.64 2.53 .956 2.76 2.75 AS
2004 FLA NL 30 DH 3 3 AS
2005 FLA NL 31 3B 135 127 120 1126.2 356 107 243 6 34 .983 12 -5 13 -5 2.80 2.59 .958 2.77 2.74 GG
2005 FLA NL 31 2B 8 8 6 67.0 32 18 13 1 3 .969 -2 -2 -45 -36 4.16 3.88 .981 4.98 4.92 GG
2006 BOS AL 32 3B 153 148 136 1298.2 463 143 314 6 39 .987 19 5 18 5 3.17 2.99 .960 2.85 2.80
2007 BOS AL 33 3B 154 150 146 1324.1 384 105 264 15 34 .961 9 5 8 5 2.51 2.40 .957 2.63 2.60 AS,MVP-5
2008 BOS AL 34 3B 110 108 97 935.2 307 80 217 10 20 .967 14 6 18 8 2.86 2.70 .958 2.74 2.71
2008 BOS AL 34 DH 2 2
2009 BOS AL 35 3B 107 105 86 895.0 265 82 174 9 14 .966 -7 -15 -9 -20 2.57 2.39 .957 2.68 2.65
2009 BOS AL 35 DH 9 8
2010 BOS AL 36 1B 43 38 28 324.0 336 310 24 2 35 .994 -1 2 -2 7 9.28 7.77 .994 9.32 9.23
2010 BOS AL 36 DH 16 14
2010 BOS AL 36 3B 4 4 2 32.0 8 2 6 0 1 1.000 1 1 41 38 2.25 2.00 .956 2.64 2.60
13 Seasons 3B 1474 1443 1321 12642.2 3929 1140 2688 101 302 .974 65 -7 6 -1 2.73 2.60 .956 2.71 2.68
1 Season 1B 43 38 28 324.0 336 310 24 2 35 .994 -1 2 -2 7 9.28 7.77 .994 9.32 9.23
1 Season 2B 8 8 6 67.0 32 18 13 1 3 .969 -2 -2 -45 -35 4.16 3.88 .981 4.98 4.92
13 Seasons TOT 1525 1489 1355 13033.2 4297 1468 2725 104 340 .976 62 -7 6 0 2.90 2.75 .959 2.88 2.88
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2002 *
2003 *
2004 *
2007 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2007 ML WS MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2003 NL (11, 7%)
2007 AL (5, 32%)
0.39 Career Shares (526th)

Gold Gloves
2005 NL (3B)

Silver Sluggers
2003 NL (3B)

Batting Average s c a p y
2007 AL  .324 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
2002 NL  160 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
2002 NL  597 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
2007 AL  191 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
2002 NL  44 (2nd)
2004 NL  44 (7th)
2006 AL  47 (3rd)
Career  394 (185th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2007 AL  120 (5th)

Singles s c a p y
2007 AL  131 (10th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2000 NL  11 (5th)
2001 NL  10 (6th)
2002 NL  11 (1st)
2005 NL  9 (2nd)
2007 AL  8 (8th)
Career  84 (76th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2006 AL  22 (7th)
2009 AL  24 (3rd)
Career  170 (183rd)

Outs Made s c a p y
2002 NL  462 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2007 AL  30.86 (10th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
2006 AL  19 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2001 NL  144 (5th)
2002 NL  159 (1st)
2004 NL  154 (3rd)
2006 AL  153 (4th)
2007 AL  154 (1st)
Career  1,474 (42nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2000 NL  102 (2nd)
2001 NL  107 (1st)
2002 NL  150 (1st)
2004 NL  117 (3rd)
2005 NL  107 (4th)
2006 AL  143 (1st)
2007 AL  105 (3rd)
Career  1,140 (73rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2000 NL  260 (5th)
2002 NL  286 (4th)
2006 AL  314 (4th)
2007 AL  264 (3rd)
Career  2,688 (53rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2007 AL  15 (3rd)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
2001 NL  35 (1st)
2002 NL  36 (3rd)
2003 NL  27 (3rd)
2004 NL  30 (3rd)
2005 NL  34 (1st)
2006 AL  39 (2nd)
2007 AL  34 (1st)
Career  302 (28th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
2001 NL  7 (4th)
2005 NL  12 (3rd)
2006 AL  19 (2nd)
2007 AL  9 (3rd)
2008 AL  14 (2nd)
Career  65 (19th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
2005 NL  2.80 (5th)
2006 AL  3.17 (3rd)
2008 AL  2.86 (3rd)
Career  2.73 (63rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2000 NL  2.66 (2nd)
2002 NL  2.74 (5th)
2006 AL  2.99 (3rd)
2008 AL  2.70 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1999 NL  .981 (1st)
2000 NL  .968 (3rd)
2001 NL  .976 (3rd)
2003 NL  .973 (1st)
2004 NL  .982 (2nd)
2005 NL  .983 (1st)
2006 AL  .987 (2nd)
2008 AL  .967 (4th)
Career  .974 (2nd)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 19 (1049), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 40 (479), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 23 (622), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (84th), 21.9 career WAR/21.4 7yr-peak WAR/21.7 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Doug DeCinces (915)
  2. Ken Caminiti (914)
  3. Aubrey Huff (910)
  4. Eric Chavez (901)
  5. Vernon Wells (898)
  6. Travis Fryman (895)
  7. Ken Keltner (893)
  8. Ben Oglivie (893)
  9. Jose Guillen (891)
  10. Cliff Floyd (889)
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  1. Dave Hollins (980)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Dave Hollins (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Joe Crede (950)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Joe Crede (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Jeff Kent (928)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Doug DeCinces (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Doug DeCinces (932)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Paul O'Neill (924)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Ken Caminiti (923)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Ken Caminiti (925)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Ken Caminiti (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
199925Florida Marlins$201,0004/6/99 USA Today
200026Florida Marlins$255,0004/5/00 AP
200127Florida Marlins$500,0004/6/01 USA Today
200228Florida Marlins$2,300,0004/3/02 AP
200329Florida Marlins$3,700,0004/3/03 AP
200430Florida Marlins$6,500,0004/7/04 AP
200531Florida Marlins$7,500,000
200632Boston Red Sox$9,000,000
200733Boston Red Sox$9,000,000
200834Boston Red Sox$12,500,000
200935Boston Red Sox$12,500,000
201036Boston Red Sox$12,500,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$76,456,000
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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