John Lowe (sportswriter)
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John Lowe is an American retired sportswriter.
In 1985, while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lowe invented the quality start statistic.[1] He wrote that it "shows exactly how many times a baseball pitcher has done his job."[2] The next year, he joined the Detroit Free Press to cover the Detroit Tigers. In December 2022, Lowe was named as the recipient of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award.[3] In 2023 he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame.[4]
Lowe graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) and worked for the Los Angeles Daily News early in his career.[5] He served as president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), and in 2012 was named Michigan sports writer of the year.[5] He retired in 2014.[6] Lowe is part of the Class of 2025 for the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and enshrined on December 19, 2025 in Detroit.
