Who's more valuable, rest of season
Cade Smith.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts, ERA, WHIP, wins, and saves.
Head-to-head
K
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ERA
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WHIP
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W
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SV
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Cade Smith wins 5 categories (K, ERA, WHIP, W, SV); Alex Lange wins 0 (none).
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Alex Lange
95.9
Cade Smith
96.9
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Alex Lange
12.1%
Cade Smith
17.0%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Alex Lange
21.1%
Cade Smith
34.8%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Alex Lange
28.4%
Cade Smith
33.5%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Alex Lange
42.3%
Cade Smith
45.2%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Alex Lange
11.7%
Cade Smith
10.4%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Alex Lange
.343
Cade Smith
.286
stabilized — trust it · small sample yet · dashed = league avg · right = better
05
The tape
Rest-of-season projection · bold = leads rest-of-season projection current season projection range
Rate · earned-run quality
ERAlower is better
Alex Lange
25.26
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.50
3.77
Cade Smith
25.26
lg xERA 4.10
now 2.60
3.68
WHIPlower is better
Alex Lange
.9701.46
now 1.35
1.26
Cade Smith
.9701.46
now 1.08
1.23
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Alex Lange
4048.80
now 26
25
Cade Smith
4048.80
now 42
34
Winshigher is better
Alex Lange
.0002.80
now 0
0–0
Cade Smith
.0002.80
now 2
1–2
Saveshigher is better
Alex Lange
.00029.40
now 0
0
Cade Smith
.00029.40
now 20
11–21
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeAlex Lange — hold.conf 0.55
Hold · wait & seeCade Smith — hold.conf 0.50