Already gave you my Bubba Chandler fantasy, there’s gonna be some random Braves’ rookie who dons the Shroud of Touki and turns into a quantity two starter for 2025 and right here’s Rhett Lowder. I’m undecided I’m going to write down up one other rookie pitcher. Simply filling you in on my thought course of. Rookie pitchers may be good — the random Touki, for unstints — they are often nice each 25 years — Paul Skenes involves thoughts — however for essentially the most half they dole out roofies and trigger main heartache after getting your hopes up — Jared Jones is one such instance. I’m clearly conscious of the Rangers’ large two rookie arms; Jacob Misiorowski is every week away or 4 years away, and supposedly the Angels have a superb arm in Caden, however the final Dana that was pure was Plato. There shall be rookie pitchers that pitch a tent in March when it seems they’re going to interrupt the rotation (and so they’ll be good till June after they blow up, as soon as once more like Jared Jones), however to invest on these guys now looks like a idiot’s errand. And I ain’t no idiot, he mentioned as he grabbed his outsized sneakers and piled right into a tiny automotive with 12 different clowns. To be fully trustworthy, I’m undecided I’d be right here writing a Rhett Lowder 2025 fantasy outlook submit — and guess what I’m doing! — if it wasn’t for his numbers after call-up. He had a 1.17 ERA in 30 2/3 IP. Loopy. What’s even crazier — Studio viewers, “What’s even crazier?!” — he did it with a few of the worst peripherals I’ve ever seen, 6.5 Okay/9, 4.1 BB/9, 38.5% floor ball price and a 89.7% LOB%. I don’t even know why I’m scripting this submit anymore. So, what can we anticipate from Rhett Lowder for 2025 fantasy baseball?
Let’s see some highlights, the hairdresser mentioned as they frosted ideas. Take it, Highlights! Wait, that’s complicated. Any hoo:
Rhett Lowder, Disgusting 87mph Changeup. ? pic.twitter.com/WdjxylB3DD
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) June 23, 2023
Right here’s a bit of butter:
Rhett Lowder’s 2Ks within the 2nd. pic.twitter.com/sqqCuNcwgh
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 15, 2024
And he’s toast:
Large league strikeout No. 1 for Rhett Lowder!
From final yr’s seventh general choose to The Present in simply over 13 months, MLB’s No. 34 prospect ascended the @Reds system swiftly in his first professional marketing campaign. pic.twitter.com/RjT0qxV7RV
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) August 30, 2024
So, we’re clearly right here for the stuff and what he did previous to his debut with the Reds. This — 6.5 Okay/9, 4.1 BB/9, 38.5% floor ball price and a 89.7% LOB% — looks like a full-on anomaly. It’s a 30-inning stint that isn’t consultant of something, methinks, as I speak like a leprechaun. Rhett Lowder works off a 95 MPH fastball, then there’s the 85 MPH slider, adopted by a 93 MPH sinker, and ultimately the 88 MPH change. He’s an Induce Weak Contact Man, so having peripherals saying he’s not pitching in addition to his ERA could be a factor for him. As an IWCG doesn’t want Ks; an IWCG wants dinkers! Give him dinkers!
Rhett Lowder induced 31% Onerous Contact final yr — identical as Shota and high 30 in league if he certified — and a 3.3% Barrel price, which is hilariously superior. That’s about the identical as a few of the finest closers. Ryan Helsley had a 3.7% Barrel price. Perhaps Rhett Lowder is the second coming of Matt Cain, a man who perennially obtained by with a 7+ Okay/9 and insane peripherals that mentioned he ought to’ve had an ERA a couple of run larger. Or a younger Gausman on the O’s earlier than he discovered his subsequent stage on the Jays (earlier than shedding that stage on the Jays). Both means, there’s room right here for fulfillment even when the usual metrics for fulfillment are unsuccessful in figuring out Lowder. Additionally, he’s 22 till March and simply threw 139 1/3 IP throughout 4 ranges, so if being prepared is a optimistic, he’s greater than. For 2025 fantasy baseball, I’ll give Rhett Lowder projections of 8-12/3.84/1.24/135 in 154 IP with an opportunity for extra on the ratios, particularly.
