John Lowe (sportswriter)

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]