Who's more valuable, rest of season
Esmerlyn Valdez.
He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — home runs, RBI, and average. Esteury Ruiz’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.
Head-to-head
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HR
R
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RBI
SB
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AVG
Esmerlyn Valdez wins 3 categories (HR, RBI, AVG); Esteury Ruiz wins 2 (R, SB).
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Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgAvg Exit Velolg 89.0 · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
90.6
Esteury Ruiz
85.5
Hard-Hit %lg 40.0% · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
51.2%
Esteury Ruiz
29.3%
Barrel %lg 8.0% · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
27.9%
Esteury Ruiz
6.9%
Chase %lg 28.5% · lower = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
23.8%
Esteury Ruiz
33.6%
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · lower = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
16.6%
Esteury Ruiz
15.7%
xwOBAlg .315 · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
.389
Esteury Ruiz
.290
stabilized — trust it · small sample yet · dashed = league avg · right = better
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The tape
Rest-of-season projection · bold = leads rest-of-season projection current season projection range
Rate · batting average
AVGhigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
.200.270
lg AVG .295
now .111
.226
Esteury Ruiz
.200.270
lg AVG .295
now .178
.174
Volume · counting stats
Home Runshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
514.60
now 2
11
Esteury Ruiz
514.60
now 2
2
Runshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
2045.40
now 2
16
Esteury Ruiz
2045.40
now 11
33
RBIhigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
2054
now 5
40
Esteury Ruiz
2054
now 5
15
Stolen Baseshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
.00033.60
now 0
0
Esteury Ruiz
.00033.60
now 8
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If you already own them — trade angle
Sell HighEsmerlyn Valdez — sell high. His value is peaking; good time to trade him.conf 0.72
Hold · wait & seeEsteury Ruiz — hold.conf 0.50