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. Colin Rea’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); Colin Rea wins 1 (W); SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Colin Rea
93.7
Yusei Kikuchi
95.4
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Colin Rea
9.7%
Yusei Kikuchi
12.5%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Colin Rea
17.0%
Yusei Kikuchi
23.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Colin Rea
30.8%
Yusei Kikuchi
27.4%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Colin Rea
42.4%
Yusei Kikuchi
42.6%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Colin Rea
11.8%
Yusei Kikuchi
8.5%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Colin Rea
.360
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
Colin Rea
3.516.47
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.70
5.02
Yusei Kikuchi
3.516.47
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.17
WHIPlower is better
Colin Rea
1.201.69
now 1.37
1.39
Yusei Kikuchi
1.201.69
now 1.58
1.31
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Colin Rea
4087.60
now 49
68
Yusei Kikuchi
4087.60
now 33
72
Winshigher is better
Colin Rea
.00012.60
now 5
4–9
Yusei Kikuchi
.00012.60
now 0
0–0
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
SellColin Rea — sell.conf 0.90
Hold · wait & seeYusei Kikuchi — hold.conf 0.55