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. Rhett Lowder’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); Rhett Lowder wins 1 (W); SV n/a.
04
Under the hood
Underlying skill — each value vs league avgFastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Rhett Lowder
93.6
Yusei Kikuchi
95.6
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Rhett Lowder
8.3%
Yusei Kikuchi
13.0%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Rhett Lowder
17.4%
Yusei Kikuchi
22.7%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Rhett Lowder
26.9%
Yusei Kikuchi
27.3%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Rhett Lowder
39.0%
Yusei Kikuchi
44.5%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Rhett Lowder
9.7%
Yusei Kikuchi
9.6%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Rhett Lowder
.351
Yusei Kikuchi
.346
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 · earned-run quality
ERAlower is better
Rhett Lowder
4.386.22
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.01
4.90
Yusei Kikuchi
4.386.22
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.79
WHIPlower is better
Rhett Lowder
1.271.67
now 1.45
1.44
Yusei Kikuchi
1.271.67
now 1.58
1.36
Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Rhett Lowder
4043
now 31
8
Yusei Kikuchi
4043
now 33
11
Winshigher is better
Rhett Lowder
.0004.20
now 3
1–1
Yusei Kikuchi
.0004.20
now 0
0–0
SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.
If you already own them — trade angle
SellRhett Lowder — sell.conf 0.90
SellYusei Kikuchi — sell.conf 0.87