MLB Daily DeltaWeek 17 · July 19, 2026
Portrait of Cade Smith
Cade Smith
CLE · P
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Portrait of Tyler Phillips
Tyler Phillips
MIA · 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); Tyler Phillips wins 0 (none).

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Cade Smith
96.9
Tyler Phillips
96.3
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Cade Smith
17.0%
Tyler Phillips
11.7%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Cade Smith
34.8%
Tyler Phillips
17.3%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Cade Smith
33.5%
Tyler Phillips
31.8%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Cade Smith
45.2%
Tyler Phillips
43.9%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Cade Smith
10.4%
Tyler Phillips
7.8%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Cade Smith
.286
Tyler Phillips
.338
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
Cade Smith
25.55
lg xERA 4.10
now 2.60
3.68
Tyler Phillips
25.55
lg xERA 4.10
now 1.63
4.43
WHIPlower is better
Cade Smith
.9401.57
now 1.08
1.23
Tyler Phillips
.9401.57
now 1.27
1.43

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Cade Smith
4048.40
now 42
34
Tyler Phillips
4048.40
now 33
26
Winshigher is better
Cade Smith
.0002.80
now 2
12
Tyler Phillips
.0002.80
now 0
00
Saveshigher is better
Cade Smith
.00029
now 20
1121
Tyler Phillips
.00029
now 2
13
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeCade Smith — hold.conf 0.50
SellTyler Phillips — sell.conf 0.77
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