Who's more valuable, rest of season
Yusei Kikuchi.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP. Anthony Kay’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.
Head-to-head
K
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ERA
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WHIP
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W
SV n/a
Yusei Kikuchi wins 3 categories (K, ERA, WHIP); Anthony Kay wins 1 (W); SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Anthony Kay
95.8
Yusei Kikuchi
95.4
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Anthony Kay
10.0%
Yusei Kikuchi
12.5%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Anthony Kay
18.2%
Yusei Kikuchi
23.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Anthony Kay
32.4%
Yusei Kikuchi
27.4%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Anthony Kay
39.3%
Yusei Kikuchi
42.6%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Anthony Kay
9.2%
Yusei Kikuchi
8.5%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Anthony Kay
.353
Yusei Kikuchi
.340
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
Anthony Kay
2.956.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 3.77
4.86
Yusei Kikuchi
2.956.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.17
WHIPlower is better
Anthony Kay
1.201.69
now 1.40
1.38
Yusei Kikuchi
1.201.69
now 1.58
1.31
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Anthony Kay
4087.60
now 42
59
Yusei Kikuchi
4087.60
now 33
72
Winshigher is better
Anthony Kay
.00014
now 5
4–10
Yusei Kikuchi
.00014
now 0
0–0
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
SellAnthony Kay — sell.conf 0.90
Hold · wait & seeYusei Kikuchi — hold.conf 0.55