Just over a week into this season, the conversation had already begun. Everyone was talking about the blazing start Jed Lowrie had gotten off to. He was healthy and playing off-the-charts baseball. In his first 11 games, Lowrie hit .341 with a .408 on-base percentage and five of his 15 hits had been for extra bases.
Hot starts seemed to be nothing new for Lowrie, but neither was having his stats drop off steeply somewhere mid-season. Any of the successful seasons he’d ever enjoyed appeared to be anomalies, over the course of what would likely end up just another mediocre career.