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 138, DH 11 · MLB debut 2018-08-05
655 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestones this season
500 career runs scored — Tue, Sep 8 · night game vs. Chicago White Sox The scorecard → · The write-up →
500 career RBI — Sat, Jun 27 · day game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipBrandon Lowe #488 · 2025 Topps Heritage · 31 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieBrandon Lowe #RA-BL · 2019 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 112 recent sales 7N ▲0.2%
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Scout’s note
A third-round pick out of Suffolk, Virginia, Lowe is 32 now and the engine says his 35 home runs are exactly what the bat should produce — an EV95 of 107.195 puts him 69th of 406 qualified bats, and a luck gap of 0.0208 means he's neither outperforming the physics nor owed a correction. He ranks No. 280 on the breakout composite, outside the board's 20-man take, which is another way of saying the boards trust what you see. Tenth in MLB home runs, and nothing borrowed to get there.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Lowe here — The Overnight: 500 career runs scored (September 8, 2026) · The Buzz August 20, 2026
Current signals
The read: Lowe is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 107.2 (69th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results within 0.021 of what the physics support — nothing owed, nothing borrowed. The boards hunt mispricing, and his price is right. He sits No. 280 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
SQUARE — the line and the bat agree. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 107.195
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0208
- Overlay score
- -0.0554
- Age
- 32
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 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.
- EV95107.269
- Deserved (xVal)0.44690
- Got (aVal)0.46395
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02123
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
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.
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Umpire favor
+4.6 net runs over 69 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 43 | 129 | 16 | 30 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 16 | 38 | .233 | .774 |
| 2019 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 82 | 296 | 42 | 80 | 17 | 51 | 5 | 25 | 113 | .270 | .850 |
| 2020 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 56 | 193 | 36 | 52 | 14 | 37 | 3 | 25 | 58 | .269 | .916 |
| 2021 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 149 | 535 | 97 | 132 | 39 | 99 | 7 | 68 | 167 | .247 | .863 |
| 2022 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 65 | 235 | 31 | 52 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 27 | 61 | .221 | .691 |
| 2023 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 109 | 377 | 58 | 87 | 21 | 68 | 7 | 50 | 119 | .231 | .771 |
| 2024 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 107 | 385 | 56 | 94 | 21 | 58 | 5 | 33 | 112 | .244 | .784 |
| 2025 | Tampa Bay Rays | MLB | 134 | 507 | 79 | 130 | 31 | 83 | 3 | 38 | 149 | .256 | .784 |
| 2026 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 150 | 584 | 94 | 152 | 35 | 96 | 2 | 62 | 189 | .260 | .824 |
| MLB CAREER | 895 | 3241 | 509 | 809 | 192 | 542 | 35 | 344 | 1006 | .250 | .810 | ||
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