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Our engine ran 10,000 Monte Carlo plate appearances of Brandon Lowe against Dylan Cease at Rogers Centre. It gives a 17.4% probability of a hit per plate appearance, with 38.4% strikeouts, 9.8% walks and 3.3% home runs per PA. Average simulated length: 3.25 pitches per plate appearance. No raw head-to-head rate drives any of these numbers; the inputs are regressed multi-season rates for both players (methodology below).
| Outcome | Sim probability | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Walk | 9.8% | |
| Strikeout | 38.4% | |
| Hit by pitch | 0.5% | |
| Single | 10.8% | |
| Double | 3.1% | |
| Triple | 0.1% | |
| Home run | 3.3% | |
| Batted-ball out | 34.0% |
Where the simulated plate appearances ended, and the hit probability conditioned on that count.
| Count | PA ends here | P(hit) at count | K / BB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-3 | 15.2% | 0.0% | |
| 1-3 | 14.5% | 0.0% | |
| 0-0 | 12.2% | 36.7% | |
| 0-1 | 10.6% | 31.2% | |
| 2-3 | 8.6% | 0.0% | |
| 1-1 | 7.8% | 29.7% | |
| 1-0 | 5.5% | 37.1% | |
| 2-1 | 4.3% | 36.3% | |
| 3-1 | 4.2% | 0.0% |
Career line: 16 PA, 5 hits (2 HR), 2 BB, 6 SO. .357 AVG / 1.367 OPS. Statcast-era pitch log: 16 PA across 5 seasons (2022–2026).
| Season | PA | H | HR | BB | SO | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .333 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.200 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .666 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.667 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
Read rate: 16 career PA is 0.0% of one full batter season. One extra dropped popup changes the career average by 7.1 points.
Re-running the same 10,000 simulated PAs with Rogers Centre's factors (hit 1.00x, home run 1.04x) moves the hit probability from 17.2% in a neutral park to 17.4%, a +0.2-point move.
Dylan Cease's 2026 pitch mix (21,733 pitches tracked).
| Pitch | Usage | Avg velo | Whiff / swing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four-Seam Fastball | 42.6% | 97 mph | |
| Slider | 36.2% | 87 mph | |
| Knuckle Curve | 11.9% | 81 mph | |
| Changeup | 5.0% | 80 mph | |
| Sinker | 2.2% | 96 mph | |
| Sweeper | 1.8% | 83 mph | |
| Cutter | 0.1% | 92 mph |
| Pitch | PA | H | K | Whiff / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slider | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0% |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0% |
Inputs: Brandon Lowe's and Dylan Cease's last-three-season lines (3499 PA / 4261 BF weighted 1x/2x/3x by recency), shrunk toward league average, blended with a log5 odds-ratio matchup model, conditioned on real league count-level pitch and batted-ball frequencies, and park-adjusted with committed park factors. The count process is calibrated per pair so simulated strikeout and walk rates land within 0.3% of the model targets (this page: 0.00% K error,0.03% BB error).
Head-to-head history never enters the simulation; a batter-pitcher pair shares a few dozen career PAs at most, and honesty means the model's priors are the players' own multi-season tendencies, not a 30-PA fluke. Full engine notes on the methodology page.