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John Lowenstein

John Lee Lowenstein

Positions: Leftfielder, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 27, 1947 in Wolf Point, MT
High School: Norte Vista (Riverside, CA)
School: University of California, Riverside
Drafted
by the Cleveland Indians in the 18th round of the 1968 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1970
Teams (by GP): Indians/Orioles/Rangers 1970-1985
Agents: Randy Hendricks,Alan Hendricks [*]
Final Game: May 4, 1985
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 8:13PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1260. Bo Diaz… #1261. George McBride… #1262. Dave Nilsson… #1263. JOHN LOWENSTEIN… #1264. Mitch Webster… #1265. Morgan Ensberg… #1266. Frank Isbell… 

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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
1970 23 CLE AL 17 44 43 5 11 3 1 1 6 1 0 1 9 .256 .273 .442 .715 91 19 1 0 0 0 0 4/56
1971 24 CLE AL 58 159 140 15 26 5 0 4 9 1 5 16 28 .186 .269 .307 .576 58 43 0 0 3 0 1 4/6
1972 25 CLE AL 68 172 151 16 32 8 1 6 21 2 4 20 43 .212 .304 .397 .701 105 60 1 0 1 0 0 /3
1973 26 CLE AL 98 334 305 42 89 16 1 6 40 5 3 23 41 .292 .338 .410 .748 108 125 9 0 3 3 0 4/53
1974 27 CLE AL 140 574 508 65 123 14 2 8 48 36 17 53 85 .242 .313 .325 .638 85 165 6 2 6 5 2 53/4
1975 28 CLE AL 91 297 265 37 64 5 1 12 33 15 10 28 28 .242 .313 .404 .717 103 107 4 0 3 1 2 /54
1976 29 CLE AL 93 257 229 33 47 8 2 2 14 11 8 25 35 .205 .283 .284 .567 69 65 4 0 3 0 3 /3
1977 30 CLE AL 81 172 149 24 36 6 1 4 12 1 8 21 29 .242 .335 .376 .711 98 56 6 0 2 0 1 /3
1978 31 TEX AL 77 217 176 28 39 8 3 5 21 16 3 37 29 .222 .363 .386 .749 112 68 2 2 2 0 2 5
1979 32 BAL AL 97 232 197 33 50 8 2 11 34 16 4 30 37 .254 .351 .482 .833 126 95 2 1 1 3 3 /35
1980 33 BAL AL 104 231 196 38 61 8 0 4 27 7 3 32 29 .311 .403 .413 .816 126 81 2 0 0 3 1
1981 34 BAL AL 83 213 189 19 47 7 0 6 20 7 6 22 32 .249 .329 .381 .710 105 72 8 1 0 1 1 *
1982 35 BAL AL 122 384 322 69 103 15 2 24 66 7 6 54 59 .320 .415 .602 1.017 177 194 6 1 3 4 10 *
1983 36 BAL AL 122 366 310 52 87 13 2 15 60 2 1 49 55 .281 .374 .481 .855 137 149 2 1 0 6 1 /4
1984 37 BAL AL 105 307 270 34 64 13 0 8 28 1 0 33 54 .237 .319 .374 .693 93 101 5 1 0 3 3 /3
1985 38 BAL AL 12 29 26 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 .077 .138 .077 .215 -38 2 0 0 0 1 0 /
16 Seasons 1368 3988 3476 510 881 137 18 116 441 128 78 446 596 .253 .337 .403 .741 108 1402 58 9 27 30 30
162 Game Avg. 162 472 412 60 104 16 2 14 52 15 9 53 71 .253 .337 .403 .741 108 166 7 1 3 4 4
CLE (8 yrs) 646 2009 1790 237 428 65 9 43 183 72 55 187 298 .239 .310 .358 .668 90 640 31 2 21 9 9
BAL (7 yrs) 645 1762 1510 245 414 64 6 68 237 40 20 222 269 .274 .365 .460 .824 128 694 25 5 4 21 19
TEX (1 yr) 77 217 176 28 39 8 3 5 21 16 3 37 29 .222 .363 .386 .749 112 68 2 2 2 0 2

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1970 23 CLE AL 44 -1 1 0 0 4 0 1 5 0.6 1 0.1 0.5 $ 4/56
1971 24 CLE AL 159 -8 -2 -1 2 -3 0 5 -8 -0.9 -4 -0.5 -0.4 $ 4/6
1972 25 CLE AL 171 1 0 0 1 2 -2 6 9 0.9 6 0.6 0.3 $ /3
1973 26 CLE AL 335 3 0 1 0 -8 -2 11 5 0.5 13 1.4 -0.9 $ 4/53
1974 27 CLE AL 574 -3 -1 2 2 10 -4 19 25 2.5 15 1.6 0.9 $ 53/4
1975 28 CLE AL 297 0 -2 -2 0 -5 -5 10 -5 -0.6 1 0.1 -0.7 $ /54
1976 29 CLE AL 257 -10 2 1 0 -9 -4 9 -12 -1.3 -2 -0.2 -1.1 $ /3
1977 30 CLE AL 172 0 -6 0 -1 1 -3 6 -3 -0.4 -4 -0.4 0.0 $ /3
1978 31 TEX AL 217 3 1 0 1 -4 -2 7 7 0.8 10 1.1 -0.3 $ 5
1979 32 BAL AL 232 7 0 1 0 7 -3 8 20 2.0 13 1.3 0.7 $ /35
1980 33 BAL AL 231 11 0 -1 1 -3 -3 7 12 1.3 15 1.6 -0.3 $
1981 34 BAL AL 213 2 0 -1 -1 -12 -3 7 -9 -0.9 4 0.4 -1.3 $ *
1982 35 BAL AL 384 35 -2 -1 -1 -2 -4 12 37 3.8 39 4.0 -0.2 $ *
1983 36 BAL AL 366 18 -1 -2 3 -7 -4 12 19 1.9 26 2.7 -0.8 $ /4
1984 37 BAL AL 307 -4 1 1 0 -1 -5 10 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $ /3
1985 38 BAL AL 29 -5 0 0 0 -0 -1 1 -5 -0.5 -5 -0.5 0.0 $ /
16 Seasons 3988 49 -9 -2 7 -31 -45 131 100 10.0 131 13.6 -3.6 $
CLE (8 yrs) 2009 -18 -8 1 4 -8 -20 67 16 1.3 26 2.7 -1.4 $
BAL (7 yrs) 1762 64 -2 -3 2 -19 -23 57 77 7.9 95 9.8 -1.9 $
TEX (1 yr) 217 3 1 0 1 -4 -2 7 7 0.8 10 1.1 -0.3 $

Postseason Batting

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
1979 32 BAL AL ALCS CAL W 4 8 6 2 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 2 .167 .375 .667 1.042 4 0 0 0 0 0
1979 32 BAL AL WS PIT L 6 14 13 2 3 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 .231 .286 .308 .593 4 0 0 0 0 0
1983 36 BAL AL ALCS CHW W 3 7 6 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 .167 .286 .333 .619 2 0 0 0 0 0
1983 36 BAL AL WS PHI W 4 13 13 2 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 .385 .385 .692 1.077 9 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (4 Series) 17 42 38 6 10 3 0 2 9 0 0 4 10 .263 .333 .500 .833 19 0 0 0 0 0
2 ALCS 7 15 12 2 2 1 0 1 5 0 0 3 4 .167 .333 .500 .833 6 0 0 0 0 0
2 WS 10 27 26 4 8 2 0 1 4 0 0 1 6 .308 .333 .500 .833 13 0 0 0 0 0

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 Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1970 CLE AL 23 2B 10 43 12 31 0 5 1.000 4 4.30 .979 5.32
1970 CLE AL 23 3B 2 9 1 6 2 1 .778 -1 3.50 .949 3.05
1970 CLE AL 23 OF 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1 1.00 .980 2.15
1970 CLE AL 23 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 4.90
1970 CLE AL 23 LF 2 0 0 4.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1 180 4.50 1.00 .980 1.80 1.80
1971 CLE AL 24 2B 29 142 81 59 2 17 .986 -2 4.83 .980 5.28
1971 CLE AL 24 OF 18 19 17 1 1 0 .947 -0 1.00 .982 2.22
1971 CLE AL 24 SS 3 12 5 6 1 1 .917 -1 3.67 .965 4.87
1971 CLE AL 24 RF 8 6 4 52.0 13 12 0 1 0 .923 0 0 2.08 1.50 .980 2.04 2.04
1971 CLE AL 24 LF 7 3 2 27.0 6 5 1 0 0 1.000 0 9 2.00 0.86 .982 1.93 1.91
1971 CLE AL 24 CF 5 0 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -86 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.72
1972 CLE AL 25 OF 58 84 77 7 0 3 1.000 2 1.45 .983 2.21
1972 CLE AL 25 1B 2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 2.50 .992 9.70
1972 CLE AL 25 LF 29 11 11 139.2 31 30 1 0 0 1.000 1 7 2.00 1.07 .980 1.89 1.89
1972 CLE AL 25 RF 27 22 17 203.0 48 42 6 0 3 1.000 2 9 2.13 1.78 .980 2.12 2.11
1972 CLE AL 25 CF 3 3 3 30.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.80 2.00 .987 2.64 2.63
1973 CLE AL 26 OF 51 72 62 5 5 1 .931 -6 1.31 .979 2.27
1973 CLE AL 26 2B 25 114 49 64 1 19 .991 -2 4.52 .980 5.41
1973 CLE AL 26 3B 8 25 9 15 1 2 .960 -0 3.00 .950 2.98
1973 CLE AL 26 1B 1 5 4 1 0 0 1.000 1 5.00 .992 9.80
1973 CLE AL 26 RF 37 29 20 264.1 49 43 2 4 0 .918 -4 -19 1.53 1.22 .976 2.09 2.07
1973 CLE AL 26 LF 12 11 10 94.0 17 15 1 1 0 .941 -1 -13 1.53 1.33 .977 2.00 1.99
1973 CLE AL 26 CF 4 4 3 32.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -26 2.25 2.00 .982 2.78 2.78
1973 CLE AL 26 DH 4 3
1974 CLE AL 27 OF 100 209 200 6 3 1 .986 7 2.06 .980 2.40
1974 CLE AL 27 3B 28 89 23 63 3 4 .966 2 3.07 .954 3.10
1974 CLE AL 27 1B 12 96 88 8 0 6 1.000 0 8.00 .992 9.66
1974 CLE AL 27 2B 4 10 3 7 0 0 1.000 1 2.50 .975 5.35
1974 CLE AL 27 LF 89 85 51 706.2 182 175 5 2 1 .989 7 12 2.29 2.02 .974 2.12 2.11
1974 CLE AL 27 CF 8 7 5 60.0 18 18 0 0 0 1.000 1 26 2.70 2.25 .986 2.92 2.92
1974 CLE AL 27 RF 6 3 3 33.0 8 7 0 1 0 .875 -2 -65 1.91 1.17 .976 2.18 2.17
1975 CLE AL 28 OF 36 59 56 2 1 1 .983 -4 1.61 .979 2.36
1975 CLE AL 28 3B 8 17 5 11 1 0 .941 -2 2.00 .954 3.15
1975 CLE AL 28 2B 2 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 0 1.50 .973 5.40
1975 CLE AL 28 DH 27 27
1975 CLE AL 28 LF 19 13 11 125.0 21 20 1 0 0 1.000 -2 -22 1.51 1.11 .977 2.18 2.17
1975 CLE AL 28 RF 17 16 13 137.2 28 26 1 1 1 .964 -3 -23 1.77 1.59 .976 2.11 2.10
1975 CLE AL 28 CF 3 2 2 25.0 11 11 0 0 0 1.000 1 38 3.96 3.67 .983 2.84 2.83
1976 CLE AL 29 OF 61 107 97 7 3 1 .972 -7 1.70 .981 2.48
1976 CLE AL 29 1B 9 88 81 3 4 8 .955 -2 9.33 .992 9.89
1976 CLE AL 29 RF 29 23 15 203.0 38 37 0 1 0 .974 -4 -27 1.64 1.28 .980 2.21 2.22
1976 CLE AL 29 CF 19 15 11 137.1 42 38 3 1 0 .976 -3 -23 2.69 2.16 .984 2.98 2.99
1976 CLE AL 29 LF 13 10 8 89.0 28 21 6 1 1 .964 0 0 2.73 2.08 .978 2.23 2.24
1976 CLE AL 29 DH 4 4
1977 CLE AL 30 OF 39 63 62 1 0 0 1.000 1 1.62 .978 2.32
1977 CLE AL 30 1B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .990 10.00
1977 CLE AL 30 LF 18 14 8 128.0 32 31 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -11 2.25 1.78 .976 2.11 2.09
1977 CLE AL 30 RF 17 11 7 107.1 25 25 0 0 0 1.000 1 15 2.10 1.47 .974 2.08 2.07
1977 CLE AL 30 DH 9 9
1977 CLE AL 30 CF 5 3 2 30.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 1 28 2.70 1.80 .983 2.82 2.80
1978 TEX AL 31 3B 25 68 22 41 5 2 .926 -1 2.52 .954 2.98
1978 TEX AL 31 OF 16 14 12 1 1 0 .929 -2 0.81 .979 2.45
1978 TEX AL 31 DH 16 16
1978 TEX AL 31 LF 14 6 4 73.1 13 12 0 1 0 .923 -2 -34 1.47 0.86 .974 2.21 2.19
1978 TEX AL 31 RF 2 0 0 3.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -120 3.00 0.50 .980 2.10 2.20
1979 BAL AL 32 OF 72 125 120 4 1 2 .992 7 1.72 .981 2.43
1979 BAL AL 32 1B 1 5 4 1 0 1 1.000 -0 5.00 .992 10.00
1979 BAL AL 32 3B 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 -0 2.00 .955 3.00
1979 BAL AL 32 LF 46 29 11 270.0 71 71 0 0 0 1.000 5 22 2.37 1.54 .980 2.22 2.20
1979 BAL AL 32 RF 40 15 12 157.0 51 47 3 1 2 .980 2 12 2.87 1.25 .980 2.25 2.22
1979 BAL AL 32 DH 2 2
1979 BAL AL 32 CF 1 1 0 6.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 80 3.00 2.00 .985 2.85 2.90
1980 BAL AL 33 OF 91 132 128 3 1 0 .992 -3 1.44 .979 2.46
1980 BAL AL 33 LF 88 47 33 461.1 124 121 2 1 0 .992 -2 -6 2.40 1.40 .980 2.35 2.35
1980 BAL AL 33 RF 6 5 2 35.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -38 2.06 1.33 .975 2.13 2.12
1980 BAL AL 33 DH 2 2
1981 BAL AL 34 OF 73 104 100 3 1 0 .990 -12 1.41 .983 2.47
1981 BAL AL 34 LF 68 51 27 432.2 99 94 3 2 0 .980 -12 -32 2.02 1.43 .979 2.38 2.38
1981 BAL AL 34 RF 9 3 3 34.2 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -28 1.56 0.67 .980 2.15 2.14
1982 BAL AL 35 OF 111 204 202 2 0 0 1.000 -2 1.84 .982 2.46
1982 BAL AL 35 LF 111 92 55 783.0 198 196 2 0 0 1.000 -4 -5 2.28 1.78 .981 2.29 2.28
1982 BAL AL 35 RF 3 2 0 8.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 1 165 4.50 1.33 .980 2.25 2.27
1983 BAL AL 36 OF 107 166 155 8 3 1 .982 -7 1.52 .981 2.48
1983 BAL AL 36 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 5.30
1983 BAL AL 36 LF 107 98 38 713.0 166 155 8 3 1 .982 -7 -12 2.06 1.52 .977 2.32 2.30
1983 BAL AL 36 DH 1 1
1984 BAL AL 37 OF 67 102 94 5 3 0 .971 -0 1.48 .983 2.49
1984 BAL AL 37 1B 2 19 19 0 0 2 1.000 -0 9.50 .991 9.70
1984 BAL AL 37 LF 68 54 23 434.1 103 95 5 3 0 .971 -0 -1 2.07 1.47 .982 2.27 2.26
1984 BAL AL 37 DH 18 18
1985 BAL AL 38 OF 4 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 1.75 .981 2.42
1985 BAL AL 38 DH 4 4
1985 BAL AL 38 LF 4 4 1 22.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -16 2.86 1.75 .977 2.25 2.22
16 Seasons OF 906 1469 1391 55 23 10 .984 -28 1.60 .981 2.42
16 Seasons LF 695 528 293 4503.0 1100 1050 36 14 3 .987 -18 -5 2.17 1.56 .978 2.24 2.24
12 Seasons RF 201 135 96 1238.0 279 256 14 9 6 .968 -10 -9 1.96 1.34 .978 2.14 2.14
6 Seasons 3B 72 210 60 138 12 9 .943 -2 2.75 .953 3.05
6 Seasons 2B 71 312 145 164 3 41 .990 2 4.35 .980 5.34
8 Seasons CF 48 35 26 327.1 96 91 4 1 0 .990 -1 -2 2.61 1.98 .984 2.89 2.88
7 Seasons 1B 28 219 202 13 4 17 .982 -2 7.68 .992 9.77
2 Seasons SS 4 12 5 6 1 1 .917 -1 2.75 .965 4.88
16 Seasons TOT 1081 2222 1803 376 43 78 .981 -31 2.02 .979 2.85
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1991 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1974 AL  36 (3rd)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1982 AL  35 (7th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1982 AL  3.5 (7th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1982 AL  10 (8th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1974 AL  17 (2nd)
Career  78 (230th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1982 AL  13.4 (7th)**

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
1982 AL  3.4 (10th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
1982 AL  3.2 (8th)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)s c a p y
1974 AL  2.29 (3rd)
Career  2.19 (24th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1974 AL  2.02 (5th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1974 AL  .989 (2nd)
1980 AL  .992 (3rd)
1982 AL  1.000 (1st)
Career  .987 (22nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1980 AL  .992 (5th)
1982 AL  1.000 (1st)

                                         
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Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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 - 2 (2130), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 7 (1348), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 13 (1325), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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