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. Carmen Mlodzinski’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); Carmen Mlodzinski wins 1 (W); SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
95.0
Yusei Kikuchi
95.4
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
9.6%
Yusei Kikuchi
12.5%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
18.6%
Yusei Kikuchi
23.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
30.4%
Yusei Kikuchi
27.4%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
46.2%
Yusei Kikuchi
42.6%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
7.2%
Yusei Kikuchi
8.5%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
.339
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
Carmen Mlodzinski
2.946.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 3.76
4.64
Yusei Kikuchi
2.946.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.19
WHIPlower is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
1.201.69
now 1.42
1.38
Yusei Kikuchi
1.201.69
now 1.58
1.31
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
4051.60
now 46
40
Yusei Kikuchi
4051.60
now 33
43
Winshigher is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
.0007
now 4
2–5
Yusei Kikuchi
.0007
now 0
0–0
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
SellCarmen Mlodzinski — sell.conf 0.80
Hold · wait & seeYusei Kikuchi — hold.conf 0.55