MLB Daily DeltaWeek 20 · August 6, 2026
Blade Tidwell
SF · P
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Portrait of Cade Smith
Cade Smith
CLE · P
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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
ERA
WHIP
W
SV

Cade Smith wins 5 categories (K, ERA, WHIP, W, SV); Blade Tidwell wins 0 (none).

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Blade Tidwell
95.8
Cade Smith
97.1
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Blade Tidwell
12.8%
Cade Smith
16.6%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Blade Tidwell
18.8%
Cade Smith
34.0%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Blade Tidwell
26.8%
Cade Smith
31.5%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Blade Tidwell
39.2%
Cade Smith
44.5%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Blade Tidwell
3.9%
Cade Smith
9.9%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Blade Tidwell
.282
Cade Smith
.283
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 · earned-run quality
ERAlower is better
Blade Tidwell
2.164.14
lg xERA 4.10
now 3.00
3.70
Cade Smith
2.164.14
lg xERA 4.10
now 2.60
3.31
WHIPlower is better
Blade Tidwell
1.011.31
now 1.08
1.24
Cade Smith
1.011.31
now 1.08
1.13

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Blade Tidwell
4054.80
now 10
12
Cade Smith
4054.80
now 42
25
Winshigher is better
Blade Tidwell
.0002.80
now 0
00
Cade Smith
.0002.80
now 2
12
Saveshigher is better
Blade Tidwell
.00027.60
now 1
12
Cade Smith
.00027.60
now 20
815
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeBlade Tidwell — hold.conf 0.50
BuyCade Smith — buy.conf 0.84
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