MLB · 2B · Pittsburgh Pirates
Brandon Lowe
B/T L/R · 5' 9" · 181 lb · born Suffolk, VA, USA · age 32 · draft 2015 rd 3 · played 2B 115, DH 10 · MLB debut 2018-08-05
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 11 G · .231 AVG · 1 HR · 3 RBI · .651 OPS
577 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Chase
1 R from 500 — our pace: ≈ September 5, 2026 Follow the chase →
On the record · career milestone this season
500 career RBI — Sat, Jun 27 · day game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipBrandon Lowe #488 · 2025 Topps Heritage · 35 recent sales 7N ▲0%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
The rookieBrandon Lowe #RA-BL · 2019 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 138 recent sales 7N ▲6%
Live on eBay now · asking, not sold · as of 2026-09-04 · paid links
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Scout’s note
Brandon Lowe, a lefty-hitting second baseman from Suffolk, Virginia, has 184 career home runs across 866 games — but his last 11 include 18 strikeouts alongside a .256 average.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Lowe here — The Buzz August 20, 2026
Current signals
The read: Lowe is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.1 (70th percentile of the 382 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.7) with results within 0.019 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 259 of 382 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 107.135
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0192
- Overlay score
- -0.0461
- Age
- 32
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95107.169
- Deserved (xVal)0.43786
- Got (aVal)0.45395
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.01923
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Free agent after this seasonA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $11.50M
- Tax hit
- $11.50M
- Service time
- 7 yr 58 d
- Guaranteed
- $24M
The deal 6 years $24M (2019–2024), unspecified option for 2025, unspecified option for 2026 — $4.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 6 y/$24M (19-24)+25-26 opts · agent Bledsoe Ageny · 3 / 3 options left
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Pittsburgh Pirates.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $11.5M
- Guaranteed
- $24.0M
- Term
- 6 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $11.5M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Brandon Lowe
If the signal is right, the cardboard usually finds out later. Current listings:
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Not financial advice. We take positions only after publication — never before. Misses stay on the record.
Umpire favor
+3.2 net runs over 61 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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