Who's more valuable, rest of season
Cole Ragans.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP. Roki Sasaki’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.
Head-to-head
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K
◀
ERA
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WHIP
W
▶
SV n/a
Cole Ragans wins 3 categories (K, ERA, WHIP); Roki Sasaki wins 1 (W); SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Cole Ragans
94.9
Roki Sasaki
97.5
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Cole Ragans
14.4%
Roki Sasaki
14.3%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Cole Ragans
29.8%
Roki Sasaki
23.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Cole Ragans
27.9%
Roki Sasaki
31.3%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Cole Ragans
39.8%
Roki Sasaki
45.1%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Cole Ragans
15.7%
Roki Sasaki
11.3%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Cole Ragans
.344
Roki Sasaki
.331
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
Cole Ragans
3.995.08
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.84
4.23
Roki Sasaki
3.995.08
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.59
4.41
WHIPlower is better
Cole Ragans
1.261.49
now 1.42
1.33
Roki Sasaki
1.261.49
now 1.35
1.34
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Cole Ragans
4089.80
now 45
77
Roki Sasaki
4089.80
now 50
64
Winshigher is better
Cole Ragans
.0008
now 1
1–2
Roki Sasaki
.0008
now 3
3–6
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
Hold · wait & seeCole Ragans — hold.conf 0.50
SellRoki Sasaki — sell.conf 0.69