Who's more valuable, rest of season
Yusei Kikuchi.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts and WHIP. Andrew Painter’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.
Head-to-head
K
▶
◀
ERA
WHIP
▶
W
SV n/a
Yusei Kikuchi wins 2 categories (K, WHIP); Andrew Painter wins 1 (ERA); 1 even; SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Andrew Painter
96.5
Yusei Kikuchi
95.6
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
12.1%
Yusei Kikuchi
13.0%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
20.1%
Yusei Kikuchi
22.7%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
34.4%
Yusei Kikuchi
27.3%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Andrew Painter
35.7%
Yusei Kikuchi
44.5%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Andrew Painter
8.5%
Yusei Kikuchi
9.6%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Andrew Painter
.327
Yusei Kikuchi
.346
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
Andrew Painter
3.816.38
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.74
4.38
Yusei Kikuchi
3.816.38
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.78
WHIPlower is better
Andrew Painter
1.271.67
now 1.52
1.37
Yusei Kikuchi
1.271.67
now 1.58
1.36
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Andrew Painter
4056.60
now 43
9
Yusei Kikuchi
4056.60
now 33
12
Winshigher is better
Andrew Painter
.0001.48
now 1
0–0
Yusei Kikuchi
.0001.48
now 0
0–0
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
SellAndrew Painter — sell.conf 0.68
SellYusei Kikuchi — sell.conf 0.86