Fan Gauge: Mark Lowe

by Jeff Sullivan on May 4, 2010 12:30 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Polling

Once again, vote based on your own personal opinion, using whatever criteria you like.

Poll

I, the Mariners fan:

Love Mark Lowe

122 votes

Like Mark Lowe

779 votes

Don't have a strong opinion of Mark Lowe

408 votes

Don't like Mark Lowe

138 votes

Hate Mark Lowe

14 votes

1461 votes | Poll has closed

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I'll love him once he finally bumps Aardsma and takes his rightful place as closer

by ManifestDestiny on May 4, 2010 12:31 PM PDT reply actions

League!

by Eyeball Kid on May 4, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Not until he throws his splitter more

by ManifestDestiny on May 4, 2010 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions

His last couple outings it has looked like he has gone to that pitch a bit more

Pitch F/X would say for sure, but it seems like it to me!

by seattlesundevil on May 4, 2010 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions

League has been our best pitcher so far by xFIP, splitter or no splitter.

@ERiC_UW

by lailaihei on May 4, 2010 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions

I love Mark Lowe when he's at his best

The inconsistency pushes it down to really, really like. The bullpen hijinks do him no harm either.

by Eyeball Kid on May 4, 2010 12:34 PM PDT reply actions

Lowe, Aardsma, League, Kelley

All sit at approximately the same place on the love/hate scale for me. In a lot of ways Bullpen Conglomeration Guy is pretty accurate.

by Drew_D on May 4, 2010 1:10 PM PDT reply actions

He was one of the first prospects I saw come up and have immediate success. I fondly remember his however-long scoreless streak to start his ML career (something like 15-20 innings). Also he’s a great human interest story, given that his surgery was entirely experimental and now he’s just about right back up to his pre-surgery velocity.

I am actually debating a Mark Lowe jersey as my next major Mariners purchase. I also have a thing for scrappy white guys from the midwest, I dunno.

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by appleshampoo on May 4, 2010 2:16 PM PDT reply actions

I guess Texas isn't really the midwest.

Whatever.

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by appleshampoo on May 4, 2010 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Also, throwing 98 mph makes him the defintion of "not scrappy"

by seattlebruin on May 4, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions

He's diabetic.

That’s gotta be worth a few points on the Scrappiness Quotient.

by craig3410 on May 4, 2010 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions

He's a diabetic too?

Fuck. Why do I love all the hard throwing diabetics.

by Kirk on May 4, 2010 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions

Mark Lowe is one of my favorite players.

He’s the main guy behind all the bullpen hijinks, and he can occasionally hit 100 mph. Good player + probably insane = love.

ROB JOHNSON IS THE WORST PERSON EVER

by I Lick Squirrels on May 4, 2010 3:41 PM PDT reply actions

I like Mark Lowe the person, but don't like Mark Lowe the player.

Only around 15% of the games in the season have passed and he has already given up the losing run in 3 games. That’s small sample size galore, but last year he had 7 losses and 10 blown saves. Of course there’s probably overlap for those games when we were leading and he gave up the runs which negated our lead and the losing run also.
That’s pretty bad especially when you look at some of the good setup guys we’ve had previously like Rhodes and Nelson.

Lowe seems to be overrated (especially by Wak, which is bad for our record since Wak puts him out there in high leverage situations which he blows too frequently) so is there any possibility to add him to a trade for a servicable DH?

Kelley can be brought up as his replacement and we’d seem better off than now. Or are other teams not so dumb to overpay?

by Sam Regens on May 4, 2010 6:11 PM PDT reply actions

It feels like you've mentioned Rhodes and Nelson in about 1/3 of your posts

This may come as a surprise, but those guys have fuck all to do with this team. As for Lowe, it’s not like he’s a bad pitcher, he’s just being used in the wron situations, as Dave Cameron points out here.

by Eyeball Kid on May 4, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks for paying attention in any case.

One thing I agree with you is that Lowe is not a good enough pitcher to be used in the high leverage situations that Wakamatsu is using him in.
Wak is rapidly losing my confidence.
I don’t know how many games we won thanks to him, but it seems we lost more than 5 games (difference between first and last in the division) due to his bad calls (line-up management and relief, overmanaging using that moron Byrnes, etc.).

by Sam Regens on May 5, 2010 2:08 AM PDT up reply actions