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 unsure I’m going to jot down up one other rookie pitcher. Simply filling you in on my thought course of. Rookie pitchers could 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’ massive two rookie arms; Jacob Misiorowski is every week away or 4 years away, and supposedly the Angels have arm in Caden, however the final Dana that was pure was Plato. There will likely 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 once they blow up, as soon as once more like Jared Jones), however to invest on these guys now appears 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 utterly trustworthy, I’m unsure I’d be right here writing a Rhett Lowder 2025 fantasy outlook publish — 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 number of the worst peripherals I’ve ever seen, 6.5 Okay/9, 4.1 BB/9, 38.5% floor ball charge and a 89.7% LOB%. I don’t even know why I’m penning this publish anymore. So, what can we anticipate from Rhett Lowder for 2025 fantasy baseball?
Let’s see some highlights, the hairdresser mentioned as they frosted suggestions. 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:
Massive league strikeout No. 1 for Rhett Lowder!
From final 12 months’s seventh total decide 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 charge and a 89.7% LOB% — looks as if a full-on anomaly. It’s a 30-inning stint that isn’t consultant of something, methinks, as I discuss 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 finally the 88 MPH change. He’s an Induce Weak Contact Man, so having peripherals saying he’s not pitching in addition to his ERA is perhaps a factor for him. As an IWCG doesn’t want Ks; an IWCG wants dinkers! Give him dinkers!
Rhett Lowder induced 31% Exhausting Contact final 12 months — identical as Shota and prime 30 in league if he certified — and a 3.3% Barrel charge, which is hilariously superior. That’s about the identical as a number of the greatest closers. Ryan Helsley had a 3.7% Barrel charge. Possibly 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 greater. 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 manner, there’s room right here for achievement even when the usual metrics for achievement 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 constructive, 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.
