Jed Lowrie is an American professional baseball infielder for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and New York Mets.
He was sent back to Oakland in exchange for minor league pitcher Brendan McCurry on November 25, 2015. Lowrie was shifted to second base when the A’s acquired shortstop Marcus Semien from the White Sox in a trade.
Numerous injuries cut his 2015 season short, allowing him to appear in just 69 games. After being diagnosed with a season-ending toe injury in 2016, he was unable to play the full 87 games that year due to injury. As a result of his 49 doubles in a season last year, Lowrie broke the previous Oakland season record set in 2015.
On July 10, 2018, Lowrie was chosen as an All-Star for the first time in his career, replacing Gleyber Torres, who was sidelined due to injury.
Against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on August 12th, 2018, Lowrie recorded his 1,000th hit with a double in the first inning. On August 14, 2018, against the Seattle Mariners’ Félix Hernández in Oakland, Lowrie hit his 100th career home run, a two-run blast.
Is Jed Lowrie Injured?
Both Jed Lowrie and rookie Kevin Smith were reactivated from the COVID-related injury list. When Lowrie was put on the COVID list a few weeks ago, he was one of seven players who had to miss nine games over 11 days.