Josh Lowe
2026
Angels· LF · bats L · throws R· 174 PAGrade
- Contact Quality: 30th percentile
- Power: 70th percentile
- Discipline: 12th percentile
- Contact: 19th percentile
- Hard Contact: 51st percentile
D30th percentile contact quality
Still SearchingBelow league average across the board.
A free swinger who rarely walks
Josh Lowe makes solid contact more often than 51% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 12% of qualified hitters draw them less often.
- Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better.
- Percentiles vs. 463 qualified hitters.
- Data through 2026-07-09.
Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.
What drives it
What drives it
- Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases.
- The bar splits his value into those pieces, versus the league.
- More bases is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.
Ball-in-play basesWalk bases
Bases per plate appearance
| | Josh Lowe | League | Percentile |
|---|
| Bases per ball in play(higher = better) | .520 | .507 | 30th |
| Walk rate(higher = better) | 5% | 8% | 12th |
| Strikeout rate(fewer = better) | 28% | 23% | 19th |
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
- Where every ball Josh Lowe put in play landed this season.
- Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
- Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.
- Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.
Contact & results
2026 · 117 balls in play- What kind of contact he makes, and what it turns into.
- Top bar: his contact mix (grounders, liners, fly balls, pop-ups). Each sits over the thin league-average bar.
- Below, the rates he puts up — each dot is his mark, the dashed line league median, the teal tick league’s best. Further right is better.
- Hover or tab any bar or dot for exact values. Starred rows (*) are approximate.
Ground ballsLine drivesFly ballsPop-ups
OPS*
.617
lg .697best 1.033
BABIP
.255
lg .286best .491
* Approximate: sacrifice flies and bunts aren't distinguishable in our data, so every ball in play counts as an at-bat. Slightly off official figures.
Best games
Best games
His best games this season by estimated bases.
Trends
Multi-season trends · Josh Lowe
Trending up: power · Trending down: walk rate, contact
EB/PA
— steadysteady vs last season — About the same as last seasonEstimated bases per plate appearance — higher = more offensive value
HR%
▲ improvingimproving vs last season — Hitting home runs more often than last seasonHome runs per plate appearance — higher = more power
BB%
▼ decliningdeclining vs last season — Walking less often than last seasonWalks per plate appearance — higher = more plate discipline
K%
▼ decliningdeclining vs last season — Striking out more than last seasonStrikeouts per plate appearance — lower = better contact
