Is Kody Clemens a buy or sell for fantasy baseball?

Buy — stable, above-average metrics signal genuine skill. Good ROS add target.

What is Kody Clemens's rest-of-season outlook?

Barrel% 12.6 and xwOBA matches — legit pop.

332 PA · week 17

this weekBUY

last weekHOLD

Kody Clemens

MIN·1B

data as of July 18, 2026·week 17

flipped from HOLD on July 18, 2026

Buy stable xwOBA 0.336, +0.021 vs league, production is earned; elite, already-stable contact quality; add now.med 0.64

ROSHR 5AVG .239R 20RBI 17SB 5

Clemens is a buy — elite contact, no luck, all real.

His contact quality has been stepping up across the sample and it is now elite: 92.6 mph exit velocity, 46.1% hard-hit rate, and 12.6% barrel rate — all well above league averages and well past the 60 BBE threshold where these numbers become reliable. His expected wOBA is .336, 21 points above league, and his actual wOBA matches it exactly at .336. No BABIP mirage here. He walks less than league average and swings and misses more, but the bat-to-ball skill is producing quality contact. The strikeouts are not a problem when the output is this good. The performance is earned and the sample supports it. Buy.

VS His Norm

Barrel %12.6%—+2.9% ▲vs his ~9.7% career norm

Drivers

xwobaSIGNALstable xwOBA 0.336, +0.021 vs league — production is earned
hard_hit_pctSIGNALelite, already-stable contact quality

metric · nowrolling trajectoryvs. leaguestabilized?

Avg Exit Velo92.6 mph

lg avg 89.0 mph ▲+3.6 mphvs his norm —

230 / 50 BBE

Hard-Hit %46.1%

lg avg 40.0% ▲+6.1%vs his norm —

230 / 50 BBE

Barrel %12.6%

lg avg 8.0% ▲+4.6%vs his norm +2.9% ▲

230 / 60 BBE

xwOBA.336

lg avg .315 ▲+.021vs his norm —

332 / 160 PA

wOBA.336

lg avg .315 ▲+.021vs his norm —

332 / 200 PA

Strikeout %22.6%

lg avg 22.0% ▲+0.6%vs his norm —

332 / 60 PA

Walk %6.6%

lg avg 8.5% ▼−1.9%vs his norm —

332 / 120 PA

BABIP.269

lg avg .295 ▼−.026vs his norm +.026 ▲BABIP is above his ~.243 norm — expect it to fall.

230 / 800 BIP

Swinging-Strike %12.8%

lg avg 11.0% ▲+1.8%vs his norm —

332 / 50 PA

Chase %31.9%

lg avg 28.5% ▲+3.4%vs his norm —

332 / 50 PA

5×5 ROS Outlook

rest of season

Where each category goes the rest of the way, and the skill that drives it. Tap a row to expand the full derivation.

statytdrosdriverconf

Barrel% 12.6%→11.3%signal5 HR — Barrel% 12.6% (signal) tempered to career ~9.7% → projected 11.3%.

BABIP 0.269→0.290 regressednoise.239 AVG — BABIP 0.269 is noise, regressed toward xBA-implied 0.298 (xBA 0.255) → 0.290.

on-base + lineup20 R — his run rate over ~179 projected PA.

slugging + lineup17 RBI — his RBI rate over ~179 projected PA.

run rate / role5 SB — his steal rate (5 in 49 G) over ~179 projected PA.

rosterdroprotational counting only

Every projection traces to a sabermetric input. The driver and confidence shown per row are always visible; tap any row to expand the full derivation.

VS His Norm

Drivers

5×5 ROS Outlook

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