Lowe, John

Lowe is the 2023 recipient of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award and served as the national BBWAA president in 2010. He covered Angels home games for the Los Angeles Daily News before taking over the Dodgers beat at that paper from 1981 to 1984. After two years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lowe came to Detroit where during his tenure was credited with creating the Quality Start statistic for pitchers that remains a measuring stick. Lowe covered more than 300 postseason games, including 147 in the World Series. He also chronicled Cal Ripken Jr.’s breaking of Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games record in 1995 and the culmination of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa home run chase in 1998.