Ex-Red Sox pitcher Derek Lowe’s Fort Myers mansion is up for sale
Former Major League Baseball player Derek Lowe, best known for his successes as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, is pitching something different these days.
His lavish Fort Myers mansion. Lowe’s house, listed by Premier Sotheby’s International Realty’s Sanibel office, is on the market and priced for $6,850,000.
Here is what to know about Lowe’s Fort Myers home
ADDRESS: 15401 Old Wedgewood SQUARE FOOTAGE: 11,000 (include guest wing)
hhACRES: AMENITIES: Includes an array of entertainment spaces: a billiards room, fullyequipped gym, sauna, ballet room, crafting room, massage and yoga studio, and a cigar room, complete with ventilation and an option for a walk-in humidor.
MORE: The property also features a theater room, a basketball and pickleball court, a four-hole putting green, and a pool and spa featuring a rock waterfall
hhhWho is Derek Lowe?
Lowe, 50, was born in Michigan. He was drafted in the eighth round of the 1991 Major League Baseball draft by the Seattle Mariners.
He would go on to play for seven teams, including the Red Sox, whose spring training headquarters are in Fort Myers.
Lowe was a member of the Red Sox 2004 World Championship team.
He was the winning pitcher in the final game of all three postseason series that year — the American League Division Series against the Anaheim Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels), the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees, and the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Another career highlight came in 2002 when he no-hit the Tampa Bay Rays (known at the time as the Devil Rays) at Fenway Park in April.