MLB Daily DeltaWeek 15 · July 3, 2026
Javier Assad
CHC · P
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Portrait of Keegan Akin
Keegan Akin
BAL · P
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Who's more valuable, rest of season

Keegan Akin.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP. Javier Assad’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.

Head-to-head
K
ERA
WHIP
W
SV n/a

Keegan Akin wins 3 categories (K, ERA, WHIP); Javier Assad wins 1 (W); SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Javier Assad
93.2
Keegan Akin
93.7
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Javier Assad
6.0%
Keegan Akin
9.5%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Javier Assad
15.0%
Keegan Akin
14.9%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Javier Assad
21.9%
Keegan Akin
28.0%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Javier Assad
50.0%
Keegan Akin
28.4%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Javier Assad
8.0%
Keegan Akin
5.7%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Javier Assad
.339
Keegan Akin
.298
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
Javier Assad
28.25
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.88
4.44
Keegan Akin
28.25
lg xERA 4.10
now 9.88
3.70
WHIPlower is better
Javier Assad
12.07
now 1.27
1.30
Keegan Akin
12.07
now 1.83
1.24

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Javier Assad
4034.40
now 14
27
Keegan Akin
4034.40
now 12
28
Winshigher is better
Javier Assad
.00011.20
now 3
38
Keegan Akin
.00011.20
now 0
00

SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.

If you already own them — trade angle
SellJavier Assad — sell.conf 0.77
Hold · wait & seeKeegan Akin — hold.conf 0.50
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