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); Blas Castaño wins 0 (none).
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Blas Castaño
94.5
Cade Smith
97.0
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
9.0%
Cade Smith
17.1%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
20.0%
Cade Smith
34.7%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
28.1%
Cade Smith
33.7%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Blas Castaño
50.0%
Cade Smith
44.6%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Blas Castaño
10.0%
Cade Smith
9.6%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Blas Castaño
.367
Cade Smith
.279
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
Blas Castaño
25.83
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.91
3.70
Cade Smith
25.83
lg xERA 4.10
now 2.60
3.67
WHIPlower is better
Blas Castaño
.9301.60
now 1.45
1.24
Cade Smith
.9301.60
now 1.08
1.23
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Blas Castaño
4054.80
now 10
21
Cade Smith
4054.80
now 42
29
Winshigher is better
Blas Castaño
.0002.80
now 0
0–0
Cade Smith
.0002.80
now 2
1–2
Saveshigher is better
Blas Castaño
.00028
now 0
0
Cade Smith
.00028
now 20
9–17
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeBlas Castaño — hold.conf 0.50
Hold · wait & seeCade Smith — hold.conf 0.50