MLB Daily DeltaWeek 17 · July 21, 2026
Jose Altuve
HOU · 2B
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Portrait of Justin Foscue
Justin Foscue
TEX · 2B
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Who's more valuable, rest of season

Justin Foscue.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — home runs, RBI, and average. Jose Altuve’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.

Head-to-head
HR
R
RBI
SB
AVG

Justin Foscue wins 3 categories (HR, RBI, AVG); Jose Altuve wins 2 (R, SB).

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Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Avg Exit Velolg 89.0 · higher = better
Jose Altuve
85.7
Justin Foscue
89.4
Hard-Hit %lg 40.0% · higher = better
Jose Altuve
32.9%
Justin Foscue
42.7%
Barrel %lg 8.0% · higher = better
Jose Altuve
6.1%
Justin Foscue
12.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · lower = better
Jose Altuve
35.8%
Justin Foscue
27.8%
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · lower = better
Jose Altuve
11.1%
Justin Foscue
9.4%
xwOBAlg .315 · higher = better
Jose Altuve
.284
Justin Foscue
.352
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
Jose Altuve
.200.270
lg AVG .295
now .246
.218
Justin Foscue
.200.270
lg AVG .295
now .255
.249

Volume · counting stats
Home Runshigher is better
Jose Altuve
55.20
now 4
3
Justin Foscue
55.20
now 2
4
Runshigher is better
Jose Altuve
2035.80
now 27
26
Justin Foscue
2035.80
now 5
11
RBIhigher is better
Jose Altuve
2019.60
now 12
11
Justin Foscue
2019.60
now 7
16
Stolen Baseshigher is better
Jose Altuve
.0002.20
now 1
1
Justin Foscue
.0002.20
now 0
0
If you already own them — trade angle
SellJose Altuve — sell.conf 0.61
Hold · wait & seeJustin Foscue — hold.conf 0.50
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