Who Should I Draft?
Yu Darvish or Trevor Bauer (2020)
Experts' Pick | ||
| Yu Darvish SP - CHC  | Trevor Bauer SP - CIN  | |
Expert |
95% Recommended by 42 of 44 experts |
5% Recommended by 2 of 44 experts |
| Rankings | ||
| ECR | # 20 | # 25 |
| Best Rank | # 9 | # 10 |
| Worst Rank | # 36 | # 47 |
| ADP | ||
| Composite | # 62 | # 80 |
| Best Rank | # 57 | # 63 |
| Worst Rank | # 83 | # 87 |
| Projections | ||
| Strikeouts | 76 | 83 |
| Wins | 4 | 5 |
| Saves | 0 | 0 |
| ERA | 4.01 | 4.04 |
| WHIP | 1.20 | 1.27 |
| Misc | ||
| Injury Alert | - | - |
| Expert Ranks | ||
| Andy Behrens Yahoo! Sports | # 13 | # 22 |
| Scott Pianowski Yahoo! Sports | # 20 | # 21 |
| Staff Rankings FullTime Fantasy | # 25 | # 30 |
| Alan Harrison The Fantasy Fix | # 17 | # 19 |
| Steve Gardner USA Today | # 20 | # 26 |
| Greg Smith The Fake Baseball | # 10 | # 17 |
| Jeff Boggis Fantasy Football Empire | # 19 | # 37 |
| Dalton Del Don Yahoo! Sports | # 12 | # 18 |
| KJ Fantasy Team Advice | # 15 | # 23 |
| Dave McKay The Fantasy Sports Brain | # 19 | # 29 |
| Andrew Gould FantasyPros | # 17 | # 29 |
| Chet Gresham The Fake Baseball | # 19 | # 25 |
| Joe Bond Fantasy Six Pack | # 17 | # 31 |
| Chris Meaney FTN | # 23 | # 31 |
| Andy Singleton Expand The Boxscore | # 18 | # 23 |
| Heath Capps Fake Teams | # 20 | # 32 |
| Andrea LaMont Lenny Melnick Fantasy Sports | # 16 | # 41 |
| Mario Mergola Sporfolio | # 32 | # 33 |
| Mark Ross Athlon Sports | # 19 | # 32 |
| Matt Brandon Matt Brandon | # 19 | # 26 |
| Nick Pollack Pitcher List | # 9 | # 30 |
| Bill Dubiel RotoBaller | # 16 | # 41 |
| Nick Mariano RotoBaller | # 14 | # 35 |
| Bobby Sylvester FantasyPros | # 19 | # 25 |
| Tyler Thompson Fantasy Six Pack | # 17 | # 22 |
| Jason Johnson Understanding Fantasy Baseball | # 36 | # 38 |
| Dan Harris FantasyPros | # 15 | # 30 |
| Pierre Camus RotoBaller | # 13 | # 19 |
| Andrew Seifter FantasyPros | # 35 | # 47 |
| Max Freeze Freeze Stats | # 16 | # 23 |
| Dennis Sosic Fantasy Six Pack | # 22 | # 32 |
| Michael Petropoulos BRoto Fantasy | # 20 | # 27 |
| Ariel Cohen FanGraphs | # 19 | # 31 |
| Ryan Amore Pitcher List | # 10 | # 24 |
| Todd D Clark The Fantasy Fix | # 22 | # 28 |
| Brendan Tuma BettingPros | # 20 | # 43 |
| Jacob W. Dunne New Life Fantasy | # 17 | # 28 |
| Carmen Maiorano FantasyPros | # 24 | # 36 |
| Sean Zerillo The Action Network | # 16 | # 19 |
| George Kurtz FantasyData | # 20 | # 24 |
| Nate Miller FantasyPros | # 14 | # 24 |
| Staff Rankings Roto Ranks | # 17 | # 38 |
| Site Projections RotoChamp | # 33 | # 25 |
| Chris Mitchell FantasyData | # 34 | # 10 |
| Yu Darvish SP - CHC | Trevor Bauer SP - CIN | |
| 2019 Stats | ||
| Games Played | 31 | 34 |
| Games Started | 31 | 34 |
| Innings Pitched | 179.2 | 213.0 |
| Wins | 6 | 11 |
| Losses | 8 | 13 |
| Saves | 0 | 0 |
| Blown Saves | 0 | 0 |
| Holds | 0 | 0 |
| Hits Allowed | 140 | 185 |
| Earned Runs | 79 | 107 |
| Home Runs Allowed | 33 | 34 |
| Strikeouts | 229 | 253 |
| Walks | 56 | 82 |
| ERA | 3.98 | 4.52 |
| WHIP | 1.10 | 1.25 |
| Yu Darvish SP - CHC | Trevor Bauer SP - CIN | |
| 2020 Projections | ||
| Games Played | 11 | 12 |
| Games Started | 11 | 12 |
| Innings Pitched | 64.7 | 72.8 |
| Wins | 4 | 5 |
| Losses | 3 | 4 |
| Saves | 0 | 0 |
| Blown Saves | 0 | 0 |
| Holds | 0 | 0 |
| Hits Allowed | 56 | 65 |
| Earned Runs | 29 | 33 |
| Home Runs Allowed | 10 | 10 |
| Strikeouts | 76 | 83 |
| Walks | 22 | 27 |
| ERA | 4.01 | 4.04 |
| WHIP | 1.20 | 1.27 |
| Yu Darvish SP - CHC | Trevor Bauer SP - CIN | |
| News | ||
| Yu Darvish dealt with a minor fingernail issue on his right finger in Thursday’s intrasquad game. Brad Camara Fri, Jul 10th | Trevor Bauer could toe the mound every fourth day in the abbreviated 2020 season, according to Reds' pitching coach Derek Johnson. Connor Rooney Mon, Jul 6th | |
| Yu Darvish threw his new pitch, a two-seam, splitter hybrid in Saturday's intrasquad game. Darvish called the new pitch the "Supreme." Brad Camara Mon, Jul 6th | ||
| Yu Darvish is the favorite to be the Cubs' Opening Day starter, but manager David Ross is also considering Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks. Brad Camara Wed, Jul 1st | ||
| Yu Darvish (illness) is expected to pitch three innings Friday. Brad Camara Thu, Mar 5th | ||
| Notes | ||
| There's a lot of focus on the second-half performance of Yu Darvish, one in which he allowed just seven walks over his final 13 starts, but not a lot on his dreadful first three months of the season, where he was at best a streamer who was walking everyone. Maybe he figured it out, but the whole is a greater sample than selected stretches. For Darvish, you're likely looking at a player who will be somewhere in between. He'll be a strikeout artist, but he'll be an average pitcher who is fine - not great - in the other categories. If his first half of the season in 2019 happened in the second half of the season instead, we'd be looking at him as a late-round flyer at best. Michael Waterloo - FantasyPros | For someone who thinks he's the best player on the planet and an innovative genius, Trevor Bauer really only has one good season under his belt. If you're in a league that counts innings pitched, he has increased value, but outside of that, the strikeouts aren't worth the over-hyped price that comes with drafting Bauer." Michael Waterloo - FantasyPros | |
| Darvish's season was a tale of two halves. He was utterly unplayable to begin the season, tallying a 1.56 WHIP through May and walking roughly six batters per nine innings. But Darvish pulled out of it and then some, walking only seven batters over his final 14 starts, during which he had a 2.95 ERA and 0.83 WHIP. Can you fully trust Darvish? Probably not? But should you expect him to pitch closer to his second half than his first? For sure. Dan Harris - FantasyPros | Bauer may be one of the most talented pitchers in baseball, but he has exactly one season with an ERA below 4.18, a WHIP below 1.25, or more than 12 wins. Even on an improved Cincinnati team, there's little reason to expect him to do much better than those numbers. Bauer will give you innings and plenty of strikeouts, but fantasy owners would do well to largely forget 2018, and draft him with closer to a 4.00 ERA and 1.25 WHIP in mind. Dan Harris - FantasyPros | |
| Which Yu Darvish will we get? If if it second half 2019 Darvish, he will blow his ADP out of the water, if it is first half 2019 Darvish, he will be a big loss of investment. Honestly know way of knowing, just depends if you want to take the risk or not. Michael Petropoulos - BRoto Fantasy | Piled up a whopping 253 strikeouts in a down season. Reasonable to expect 4.48 ERA to drop a bit Brendan Tuma - BettingPros | |
| From July 12th through the end of the year Darvish posted a 2.76 ERA with 118 strikeouts and just seven walks Brendan Tuma - BettingPros | ||
