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. Jarren Duran’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); Jarren Duran 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
92.6
Jarren Duran
89.5
Hard-Hit %lg 40.0% · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
56.8%
Jarren Duran
38.0%
Barrel %lg 8.0% · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
29.7%
Jarren Duran
10.3%
Chase %lg 28.5% · lower = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
23.5%
Jarren Duran
35.7%
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · lower = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
17.2%
Jarren Duran
17.5%
xwOBAlg .315 · higher = better
Esmerlyn Valdez
.398
Jarren Duran
.286
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
.200.280
lg AVG .295
now .111
.229
Jarren Duran
.200.280
lg AVG .295
now .219
.202
Volume · counting stats
Home Runshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
516
now 2
12
Jarren Duran
516
now 10
7
Runshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
2041.20
now 2
16
Jarren Duran
2041.20
now 29
30
RBIhigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
2055.40
now 5
41
Jarren Duran
2055.40
now 33
34
Stolen Baseshigher is better
Esmerlyn Valdez
.00014
now 0
0
Jarren Duran
.00014
now 10
10
If you already own them — trade angle
Sell HighEsmerlyn Valdez — sell high. His value is peaking; good time to trade him.conf 0.70
SellJarren Duran — sell.conf 0.61