How Derek Lowe's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Derek Lowe posted a career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings of .730, near the starting pitcher average of .730 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His strongest Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season came in 1998, posting .370, well below the starting pitcher average of 1.08 that year. The highest point came in 2013 at 2.08, well above the starting pitcher average of .990 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .670 in 2011 to .630 in 2012 and 2.08 in 2013. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings profile — ranging from .370 to 2.08 — though the career average tracked near league norms.

Derek Lowe Lifetime Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings

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Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Per Season

Derek Lowe's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
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Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings by Team

Derek Lowe's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Derek Lowe career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings by team bar chart

Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Derek Lowe's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Derek Lowe's seasonal Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Derek Lowe's MLB career with Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Derek Lowe Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table