MLB Daily DeltaWeek 19 · August 1, 2026
Portrait of Blas Castaño
Blas Castaño
COL · P
Change to
Portrait of Lake Bachar
Lake Bachar
MIA · P
Change to
Who's more valuable, rest of season

Lake Bachar.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts and ERA.

Head-to-head
K
ERA
WHIP
W
SV n/a

Lake Bachar wins 2 categories (K, ERA); Blas Castaño wins 1 (WHIP); 1 even; SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Blas Castaño
94.5
Lake Bachar
94.7
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
9.0%
Lake Bachar
14.5%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
20.0%
Lake Bachar
25.4%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Blas Castaño
28.1%
Lake Bachar
29.0%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Blas Castaño
50.0%
Lake Bachar
38.1%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Blas Castaño
10.0%
Lake Bachar
9.5%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Blas Castaño
.367
Lake Bachar
.297
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
3.175.41
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.91
3.70
Lake Bachar
3.175.41
lg xERA 4.10
now 3.77
3.67
WHIPlower is better
Blas Castaño
.9001.63
now 1.45
1.24
Lake Bachar
.9001.63
now 1.01
1.27

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Blas Castaño
4040.80
now 10
20
Lake Bachar
4040.80
now 32
23
Winshigher is better
Blas Castaño
.000.480
now 0
00
Lake Bachar
.000.480
now 0
00

SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.

If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeBlas Castaño — hold.conf 0.50
BuyLake Bachar — buy.conf 0.73
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