Who's more valuable, rest of season
Paul Goldschmidt.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — home runs, runs, and average. Andrew Benintendi’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.
Head-to-head
HR
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R
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RBI
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SB
AVG
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Paul Goldschmidt wins 3 categories (HR, R, AVG); Andrew Benintendi wins 2 (RBI, SB).
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Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgAvg Exit Velolg 89.0 · higher = better
Andrew Benintendi
89.7
Paul Goldschmidt
86.9
Hard-Hit %lg 40.0% · higher = better
Andrew Benintendi
48.8%
Paul Goldschmidt
39.6%
Barrel %lg 8.0% · higher = better
Andrew Benintendi
10.8%
Paul Goldschmidt
11.9%
Chase %lg 28.5% · lower = better
Andrew Benintendi
32.5%
Paul Goldschmidt
34.5%
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · lower = better
Andrew Benintendi
15.1%
Paul Goldschmidt
11.6%
xwOBAlg .315 · higher = better
Andrew Benintendi
.327
Paul Goldschmidt
.339
stabilized — trust it · small sample yet · dashed = league avg · right = better
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The tape
Rest-of-season projection · bold = leads rest-of-season projection current season projection range
Rate · batting average
AVGhigher is better
Andrew Benintendi
.230.270
lg AVG .295
now .238
.239
Paul Goldschmidt
.230.270
lg AVG .295
now .261
.243
Volume · counting stats
Home Runshigher is better
Andrew Benintendi
58.20
now 5
6
Paul Goldschmidt
58.20
now 6
7
Runshigher is better
Andrew Benintendi
2038.60
now 21
26
Paul Goldschmidt
2038.60
now 19
33
RBIhigher is better
Andrew Benintendi
2040
now 27
34
Paul Goldschmidt
2040
now 19
33
Stolen Baseshigher is better
Andrew Benintendi
.0002.20
now 1
1
Paul Goldschmidt
.0002.20
now 0
0
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · leans buyAndrew Benintendi — hold.conf 0.60
BuyPaul Goldschmidt — buy.conf 0.65