Mike Lowell

  • Silver Slugger Award winner (2003)
  • Gold Glove Award winner (2005)
  • 4x All-Star selection ( 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 )
  • 2x World Series champion (2003, 2007)
  • World Series MVP Award ( 2007)

Michael Averett Lowell ( born February 24, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican baseball player with Cuban ancestry. Lowell was active as a third baseman for the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball until 2010. Previously, he was at the 1998 New York Yankees from 1999 to 2005, the Florida Marlins under contract. On October 2, 2010, he finished his pro career.

Career

Youth and Personal

Mike Lowell grew up in Miami, Florida (USA). He is the son of former pitcher Carlos Lowell, a Cuban exile with Irish and German ancestors, who lived from 1962 to 1974 in Puerto Rico, where he played for the Puerto Rican national team.

Lowell graduated in 1992 at the " Coral Gables Senior High School " in Coral Gables, Florida. During his time in high school, Lowell was the star player of the baseball team at school. During this time, Lowell also met his future wife Bertica Lowell, with whom he has two children together. Currently the family lives in Pinecrest, Florida.

On February 19, 1999 at Lowell diagnosed testicular cancer, which is why he missed almost two months in the 1999 season due to the necessary treatment.

Florida International University

For the Florida International University Lowell received an athletic scholarship. In 1994, he played for the Chatham A's in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Lowell's shirt number 15, after he was three times All Conference player, no longer awarded at Florida International University. Lowell left the University in 1997 with a successful bachelor of finance.

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees

1995 Lowell was drafted in the 20th round by the New York Yankees. In September 1998 he made his debut in the MLB and played eight games for the Yankees. In the off-season he was traded to the Florida Marlins.

Florida Marlins

Shortly after Lowell was traded on 1 February 1999 to the Florida Marlins, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in him, why he was not from 21 February to 29 May 1999 on the basis of treatment in the squad of the Marlins. After his return to the team Lowell finished the season with a batting average of .253, 12 home runs and 47 RBI.

This was followed by another successful year in Florida, where he became one of the best third baseman in the league. In 2001, he finished the season with 18 home runs and 100 RBI.

During the 2003 season, in which he was on his way to play the best season of his career, Lowell suffered a broken hand due to a hit by pitch the pitcher Hector Almonte of the Montreal Expos. As a result of the injury Lowell missed 32 games. Nevertheless, he finished the season with 32 home runs and 105 RBI and had after his injury decisive role in the victory of the Marlins in the World Series in 2003.

2004 Lowell reached .293 with the best batting average of his career with 27 home runs and 85 RBI.

Despite a disappointing 2005 season with only eight homers Lowell got in this year his first Gold Glove. In November 2005, Lowell was part of a trade, the Marlins and the Boston Red Sox. In addition to Lowell and Josh Beckett and Guillermo Mota changed to Boston. In return, Hanley Ramírez, Aníbal Sánchez, Jesús Delgado and Harvey García changed to Florida.

Boston Red Sox

Lowell was unexpectedly strong in the 2006 season in his new team. At times he led the list of doubles. He also showed a very good defensive performance at third base. Lowell finished the season with 20 home runs and 80 RBI and shared par with Eric Chavez took first place in the statistics of the percentage Fielding's best (least errors) as a third baseman.

The subsequent 2007 season developed into one of the best of Mike Lowell. He improved his career - highs in hits, RBI, batting average and OPS. He also played a crucial role in winning the World Series in 2007, the second success of the Red Sox in four years. An early highlight of the season was the game against the New York Yankees on April 22, in which Lowell was one of four players the Red Sox, who hit four home runs in a row. At the end of the season Lowell 120 RBI could have, which posed next to a personal record and a franchise record for a third baseman of the Red Sox. At the end of the season Lowell, after he had won with the Red Sox, the seventh World Series team, as World Series MVP awards. During the 4-0 sweep against the Colorado Rockies Lowell reached .400 with a homer and four RBI. He was thus selected only in the second Puerto Rican to the MVP (the first was Roberto Clemente ).

Mike Lowell is known for the so-called hidden ball trick, a play in baseball, in which the passing of the ball is simulated to the pitcher, but the ball is actually hidden in the previous player in the glove. Now takes the player on offense his lead in the belief that the ball is in the pitcher, he may be "off".

On 6 May 2008, Lowell published autobiography Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within.

Awards and achievements

  • MVP of the 2007 World Series
  • World Series champion: 2003 with the Florida Marlins
  • 2007 with the Boston Red Sox
  • League champion: National League: 2003 with the Florida Marlins
  • American League: 2007 with the Boston Red Sox
  • 4 participations at the All-Star Game: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
  • Tony Conigliaro Award 1999
  • National League Gold Glove for third base in 2005
  • Jackie Jensen Award 2006
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