Who Should I Trade?

Ben Lively for Shota Imanaga (2026)

Summary
Stats
Projections
News & Notes
Schedule

Who Should I Trade? Player Summaries
	Experts' Pick
	Shota Imanaga SP - CHC	Ben Lively SP - CLE
Expert Recommendation	100% Recommended by 6 of 6 experts	0% Recommended by 0 of 6 experts
Rankings

Rest of Season	# 38	‐
VBR	# 144	# 979

Projections

Strikeouts	57	5
Wins	4	0
Saves	0	0
ERA	4.13	4.96
WHIP	1.18	1.40

Misc

Injury Alert	-	MiLB

Expert Ranks

Scott Pianowski Yahoo! Sports	# 36	‐

Dalton Del Don The Deep Shot	# 44	‐

Chris Welsh FantasyPros	# 44	‐

Mike Maher BettingPros	# 35	‐

Kelly Kirby FantasyPros	# 48	‐

Kevin Spinelli KevScores	# 59	‐

Who Should I Trade? Player Statistics
	Shota Imanaga SP - CHC	Ben Lively SP - CLE
2026 Stats


Games Played	21	‐

Games Started	21	‐

Innings Pitched	121.0	‐

Wins	7	‐

Losses	8	‐

Saves	0	‐

Blown Saves	0	‐

Holds	0	‐

Hits Allowed	104	‐

Earned Runs	51	‐

Home Runs Allowed	22	‐

Strikeouts	113	‐

Walks	29	‐

ERA	3.79	‐

WHIP	1.10	‐

Who Should I Trade? Player Projections
	Shota Imanaga SP - CHC	Ben Lively SP - CLE
2026 Projections


Games Played	10	5

Games Started	10	1

Innings Pitched	60.8	6.6

Wins	4	0

Losses	3	0

Saves	0	0

Blown Saves	0	0

Holds	0	0

Hits Allowed	56	7

Earned Runs	28	4

Home Runs Allowed	11	1

Strikeouts	57	5

Walks	14	2

ERA	4.13	4.96

WHIP	1.18	1.40

Who Should I Trade? Player Notes
	Shota Imanaga SP - CHC	Ben Lively SP - CLE
News
	Shota Imanaga allowed no runs on four hits and one walk while striking out four across six innings in Saturday's 11-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nicholas Rodriguez Sun, Jul 26th	Ben Lively threw a live batting practice session on July 15. Ari Koslow Sat, Jul 25th
	Shota Imanaga allowed six hits and one walk while striking out four over seven scoreless innings in Sunday's 10-1 win over the Twins. Chris Schommer Mon, Jul 20th	The Guardians re-signed RHP Ben Lively to a two-year minor league contract. Ari Koslow Thu, Feb 12th
	Shota Imanaga allowed one run on seven hits and a walk while striking out five across five innings in Friday's 4-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Nicholas Rodriguez Fri, Jul 10th
	Shota Imanaga allowed two runs on four hits and three walks while striking out eight across 4.2 innings in Saturday's 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. Nicholas Rodriguez Sun, Jul 5th
	Shota Imanaga allowed two runs on nine hits and no walks while striking out four across 6.1 innings in Monday's 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres. Nicholas Rodriguez Tue, Jun 30th
Notes
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Who Should I Trade? Player Schedules
Date	Opp	Opp Pitcher	VBR	Opp	Opp Pitcher	VBR
	Shota Imanaga SP - CHC			Ben Lively SP - CLE
Thu, Mar 26th	vs WSH	Cade Cavalli (8-4)	#52	@ SEA	Logan Gilbert (8-6)	#10
Fri, Mar 27th				@ SEA	George Kirby (8-9)	#22
Sat, Mar 28th	vs WSH	Miles Mikolas (3-7)	#304	@ SEA	Bryan Woo (7-7)	#13
Sun, Mar 29th	vs WSH	Jake Irvin (2-4)	#166	@ SEA	Emerson Hancock (6-5)	#85
Mon, Mar 30th	vs LAA	Ryan Johnson (2-5)	#169	@ LAD	Roki Sasaki (4-5)	#100
Tue, Mar 31st	vs LAA	Jose Soriano (9-6)	#53	@ LAD	Shohei Ohtani (8-2)	#1
Wed, Apr 1st	vs LAA	Yusei Kikuchi (0-3)	#128	@ LAD	Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-6)	#11
Fri, Apr 3rd	@ CLE	Joey Cantillo (8-6)	#76	vs CHC	Cade Horton (1-0)
Sun, Apr 5th	@ CLE	Parker Messick (8-6)	#45	vs CHC	Shota Imanaga (7-8)	#25
Mon, Apr 6th	@ TB	Shane McClanahan (9-6)	#35	vs KC	Michael Wacha (5-7)	#78
Tue, Apr 7th	@ TB	Mason Englert (0-3)	#175	vs KC	Noah Cameron (5-8)	#94
Wed, Apr 8th	@ TB	Joe Boyle (0-1)	#191	vs KC	Cole Ragans (1-4)
Fri, Apr 10th	vs PIT	Carmen Mlodzinski (6-3)	#119	@ ATL	Bryce Elder (6-6)	#133
Sat, Apr 11th	vs PIT	Braxton Ashcraft (10-4)	#33	@ ATL	Martin Perez (6-6)	#224
Sun, Apr 12th	vs PIT	Bubba Chandler (3-8)	#106	@ ATL	Chris Sale (12-6)	#5
Mon, Apr 13th	@ PHI	Cristopher Sanchez (13-4)	#4	@ STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-8)	#125
Tue, Apr 14th	@ PHI	Aaron Nola (3-9)	#59	@ STL	Michael McGreevy (4-9)	#87
Wed, Apr 15th	@ PHI	Jesus Luzardo (9-5)	#12	@ STL	Dustin May (5-7)	#55
Thu, Apr 16th				vs BAL	Shane Baz (4-9)	#73
Fri, Apr 17th	vs NYM	Kodai Senga (0-7)	#187	vs BAL	Chris Bassitt (4-4)	#261
Sat, Apr 18th	vs NYM	Freddy Peralta (5-9)	#38	vs BAL	Dean Kremer (1-4)	#92
Sun, Apr 19th	vs NYM	Tobias Myers (0-2)	#206	vs BAL	Trevor Rogers (6-7)	#72
Mon, Apr 20th	vs PHI	Aaron Nola (3-9)	#59	vs HOU	Spencer Arrighetti (7-5)	#279
Tue, Apr 21st	vs PHI	Jesus Luzardo (9-5)	#12	vs HOU	Ryan Weiss (0-3)	#368
Wed, Apr 22nd	vs PHI	Kyle Backhus		vs HOU	Peter Lambert (8-5)	#148
Fri, Apr 24th	@ LAD	Emmet Sheehan (4-7)	#48	@ TOR	Max Scherzer (1-4)	#150
Sat, Apr 25th	@ LAD	Roki Sasaki (4-5)	#100	@ TOR	Kevin Gausman (4-10)	#30
Sun, Apr 26th	@ LAD	Justin Wrobleski (11-2)	#90	@ TOR	Patrick Corbin (3-4)	#313
Mon, Apr 27th	@ SD	Randy Vasquez (6-6)	#257	vs TB	Steven Matz (4-4)	#196
Tue, Apr 28th	@ SD	Walker Buehler (6-5)	#217	vs TB	Nick Martinez (10-2)	#95
Wed, Apr 29th	@ SD	Matt Waldron (1-2)	#272	vs TB	Drew Rasmussen (9-5)	#20
Fri, May 1st	vs ARI	Zac Gallen (3-9)	#177	@ ATH	J.T. Ginn (8-6)	#165
Sat, May 2nd	vs ARI	Ryne Nelson (3-5)	#199	@ ATH	Jacob Lopez (5-4)	#203
Sun, May 3rd	vs ARI	Merrill Kelly (8-8)	#126	@ ATH	Aaron Civale (5-7)	#190
Mon, May 4th	vs CIN	Chase Petty (1-2)	#411	@ KC	Michael Wacha (5-7)	#78
Tue, May 5th	vs CIN	Andrew Abbott (5-6)	#108	@ KC	Stephen Kolek (4-3)	#356
Wed, May 6th	vs CIN	Brady Singer (5-10)	#142	@ KC	Cole Ragans (1-4)
Thu, May 7th	vs CIN	Rhett Lowder (3-7)	#287	@ KC	Seth Lugo (4-6)	#131
Fri, May 8th	@ TEX	Kumar Rocker (4-8)	#88	vs MIN	Connor Prielipp (3-5)	#98
Sat, May 9th	@ TEX	Jack Leiter (3-7)	#123	vs MIN	Joe Ryan (6-7)	#19
Sun, May 10th	@ TEX	Jacob deGrom (7-6)	#7	vs MIN	Andrew Morris (4-2)	#143
Mon, May 11th				vs LAA	Brent Suter (1-2)	#197
Tue, May 12th	@ ATL	Grant Holmes (6-4)	#137	vs LAA	Walbert Urena (6-7)	#318
Wed, May 13th	@ ATL	JR Ritchie (1-2)	#284	vs LAA	Reid Detmers (3-7)	#36
Fri, May 15th	@ CWS	Sean Burke (7-5)	#71	vs CIN	Andrew Abbott (5-6)	#108
Sat, May 16th	@ CWS	Davis Martin (9-5)	#82	vs CIN	Chris Paddack (0-7)
Sun, May 17th	@ CWS	Erick Fedde (5-6)	#385	vs CIN	Brady Singer (5-10)	#142
Mon, May 18th	vs MIL	Brandon Sproat (3-6)	#141	@ DET	Framber Valdez (5-7)	#34
Tue, May 19th	vs MIL	Jacob Misiorowski (11-4)	#6	@ DET	Keider Montero (7-6)	#144
Wed, May 20th	vs MIL	Kyle Harrison (8-2)	#47	@ DET	Drew Anderson	#135
Thu, May 21st				@ DET	Casey Mize (4-6)	#46
Fri, May 22nd	vs HOU	Spencer Arrighetti (7-5)	#279	@ PHI	Cristopher Sanchez (13-4)	#4
Sat, May 23rd	vs HOU	Kai-Wei Teng (5-6)	#262	@ PHI	Zack Wheeler (10-2)	#8
Sun, May 24th	vs HOU	Peter Lambert (8-5)	#148	@ PHI	Andrew Painter (1-8)	#215
Mon, May 25th	@ PIT	Carmen Mlodzinski (6-3)	#119	vs WSH	PJ Poulin (3-0)	#280
Tue, May 26th	@ PIT	Braxton Ashcraft (10-4)	#33	vs WSH	Cade Cavalli (8-4)	#52
Wed, May 27th	@ PIT	Bubba Chandler (3-8)	#106	vs WSH	PJ Poulin (3-0)	#280
Fri, May 29th	@ STL	Andre Pallante (11-6)	#115	vs BOS	Tyler Samaniego
Sat, May 30th	@ STL	Kyle Leahy (7-4)	#103	vs BOS	Sonny Gray (12-2)	#29
Sun, May 31st	@ STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-8)	#125	vs BOS	Ranger Suarez (4-3)	#23
Tue, Jun 2nd	vs ATH	Gage Jump (4-6)	#93	@ NYY	Cam Schlittler (10-6)	#14
Wed, Jun 3rd	vs ATH	Jeffrey Springs (3-10)	#219	@ NYY	Gerrit Cole (4-5)	#24
Thu, Jun 4th	vs ATH	J.T. Ginn (8-6)	#165	@ NYY	Carlos Rodon (4-2)	#105
Fri, Jun 5th	vs SF	Robbie Ray (9-6)	#102	@ TEX	Kumar Rocker (4-8)	#88
Sat, Jun 6th	vs SF	Landen Roupp (7-9)	#61	@ TEX	Jack Leiter (3-7)	#123
Sun, Jun 7th	vs SF	Trevor McDonald (3-7)	#278	@ TEX	Jacob deGrom (7-6)	#7
Mon, Jun 8th				vs NYY	Will Warren (7-5)	#68
Tue, Jun 9th	@ COL	Tomoyuki Sugano (10-4)	#434	vs NYY	Gerrit Cole (4-5)	#24
Wed, Jun 10th	@ COL	Michael Lorenzen (3-9)	#433	vs NYY	Carlos Rodon (4-2)	#105
Fri, Jun 12th	@ SF	Landen Roupp (7-9)	#61	vs DET	Jack Flaherty (3-8)	#99
Sat, Jun 13th	@ SF	Trevor McDonald (3-7)	#278	vs DET	Tarik Skubal (7-5)	#2
Tue, Jun 16th	vs COL	Ryan Feltner (3-5)	#432	@ MIL	Robert Gasser (3-4)	#112
Wed, Jun 17th	vs COL	Sean Sullivan (0-3)	#427	@ MIL	Brandon Sproat (3-6)	#141
Thu, Jun 18th				@ MIL	Shane Drohan (5-4)	#75
Fri, Jun 19th	vs TOR	Kevin Gausman (4-10)	#30	@ HOU	Tatsuya Imai (6-4)	#151
Sat, Jun 20th	vs TOR	Patrick Corbin (3-4)	#313	@ HOU	Spencer Arrighetti (7-5)	#279
Sun, Jun 21st				@ HOU	Kai-Wei Teng (5-6)	#262
Mon, Jun 22nd				@ CWS	Anthony Kay (7-5)	#205
Tue, Jun 23rd	@ NYM	Kodai Senga (0-7)	#187	@ CWS	Sean Burke (7-5)	#71
Wed, Jun 24th	@ NYM	Sean Manaea (2-5)	#81	@ CWS	Chris Murphy
Fri, Jun 26th	@ MIL	Jacob Misiorowski (11-4)	#6	vs SEA	Luis Castillo (3-9)	#64
Sat, Jun 27th	@ MIL	Kyle Harrison (8-2)	#47	vs SEA	Logan Gilbert (8-6)	#10
Sun, Jun 28th	@ MIL	Brandon Woodruff (2-2)		vs SEA	Emerson Hancock (6-5)	#85
Mon, Jun 29th	vs SD	Griffin Canning (2-9)	#172	vs TEX	Tyler Alexander (1-1)	#157
Tue, Jun 30th	vs SD	JP Sears (3-3)	#158	vs TEX	Jacob deGrom (7-6)	#7
Wed, Jul 1st	vs SD	Walker Buehler (6-5)	#217	vs TEX	MacKenzie Gore (6-9)	#37
Thu, Jul 2nd				vs CWS	Davis Martin (9-5)	#82
Fri, Jul 3rd	vs STL	Andre Pallante (11-6)	#115	vs CWS	Anthony Kay (7-5)	#205
Sat, Jul 4th	vs STL	Kyle Leahy (7-4)	#103	vs CWS	Sean Burke (7-5)	#71
Sun, Jul 5th	vs STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-8)	#125	vs CWS	Chris Murphy
Tue, Jul 7th	@ BAL	Shane Baz (4-9)	#73	@ MIN	Taj Bradley (9-4)	#50
Wed, Jul 8th	@ BAL	Dean Kremer (1-4)	#92	@ MIN	Connor Prielipp (3-5)	#98
Thu, Jul 9th	@ BAL	Trevor Rogers (6-7)	#72	@ MIN	Bailey Ober (7-3)	#83
Fri, Jul 10th	@ CIN	Hunter Greene (2-2)	#26	@ MIA	Sandy Alcantara (11-6)	#65
Sat, Jul 11th	@ CIN	Nick Lodolo (3-2)	#118	@ MIA	Eury Perez (5-8)	#42
Sun, Jul 12th	@ CIN	Andrew Abbott (5-6)	#108	@ MIA	Tyler Phillips (2-5)	#285
Sat, Jul 18th	vs MIN	Taj Bradley (9-4)	#50	vs PIT	Mason Montgomery (4-3)	#113
Sun, Jul 19th	vs MIN	Zebby Matthews (4-8)	#104	vs PIT	Paul Skenes (9-9)	#3
Mon, Jul 20th	vs DET	Jack Flaherty (3-8)	#99	vs MIN	Joe Ryan (6-7)	#19
Tue, Jul 21st	vs DET	Framber Valdez (5-7)	#34	vs MIN	Kendry Rojas (1-1)	#160
Wed, Jul 22nd	vs DET	Keider Montero (7-6)	#144	vs MIN	Bailey Ober (7-3)	#83
Thu, Jul 23rd				vs MIN	Taj Bradley (9-4)	#50
Fri, Jul 24th	@ PIT	Jared Jones (2-2)	#40	@ TB	Shane McClanahan (9-6)	#35
Sat, Jul 25th	@ PIT	Paul Skenes (9-9)	#3	@ TB	Nick Martinez (10-2)	#95
Sun, Jul 26th	@ PIT	Braxton Ashcraft (10-4)	#33	@ TB	Drew Rasmussen (9-5)	#20
Tue, Jul 28th	@ STL	Michael McGreevy (4-9)	#87	@ CIN	Caleb Ferguson
Wed, Jul 29th	@ STL	Dustin May (5-7)	#55	@ CIN	Brady Singer (5-10)	#142
Fri, Jul 31st	vs NYY	Will Warren (7-5)	#68	vs ARI	Mitch Bratt (0-1)	#195
Sat, Aug 1st	vs NYY	Max Fried (4-3)	#15	vs ARI	Kohl Drake (0-0)	#297
Sun, Aug 2nd	vs NYY	Gerrit Cole (4-5)	#24	vs ARI	Merrill Kelly (8-8)	#126
Tue, Aug 4th	vs LAD	Eric Lauer (6-5)	#370	vs NYM	Christian Scott (3-3)	#54
Wed, Aug 5th	vs LAD	Roki Sasaki (4-5)	#100	vs NYM	Sean Manaea (2-5)	#81
Thu, Aug 6th	vs TOR	Kevin Gausman (4-10)	#30	vs NYM	Nolan McLean (7-7)	#28
Fri, Aug 7th	@ KC	Luinder Avila (5-3)	#298	@ CWS	Noah Schultz (3-7)	#209
Sat, Aug 8th	@ KC	Seth Lugo (4-6)	#131	@ CWS	Anthony Kay (7-5)	#205
Sun, Aug 9th	@ KC			@ CWS
Tue, Aug 11th	@ WSH			@ DET
Wed, Aug 12th	@ WSH			@ DET
Thu, Aug 13th	@ WSH			@ DET
Fri, Aug 14th	vs STL			vs SD
Sat, Aug 15th	vs STL			vs SD
Sun, Aug 16th	vs STL			vs SD
Tue, Aug 18th	vs CWS			vs SF
Wed, Aug 19th	vs CWS			vs SF
Thu, Aug 20th				vs SF
Fri, Aug 21st	@ SEA			@ COL
Sat, Aug 22nd	@ SEA			@ COL
Sun, Aug 23rd	@ SEA			@ COL
Mon, Aug 24th	@ ARI			@ LAA
Tue, Aug 25th	@ ARI			@ LAA
Wed, Aug 26th	@ ARI			@ LAA
Fri, Aug 28th	vs CIN			vs KC
Sat, Aug 29th	vs CIN			vs KC
Sun, Aug 30th	vs CIN			vs KC
Tue, Sep 1st	vs MIL			vs TOR
Wed, Sep 2nd	vs MIL			vs TOR
Thu, Sep 3rd	vs MIL			vs TOR
Fri, Sep 4th	@ MIA			vs DET
Sat, Sep 5th	@ MIA			vs DET
Sun, Sep 6th	@ MIA			vs DET
Mon, Sep 7th	@ MIL			@ BAL
Tue, Sep 8th	@ MIL			@ BAL
Wed, Sep 9th	@ MIL			@ BAL
Fri, Sep 11th	vs PIT			@ MIN
Sat, Sep 12th	vs PIT			@ MIN
Sun, Sep 13th	vs PIT			@ MIN
Mon, Sep 14th	vs ATL			vs CWS
Tue, Sep 15th	vs ATL			vs CWS
Wed, Sep 16th	vs ATL			vs CWS
Fri, Sep 18th	@ CIN			vs ATH
Sat, Sep 19th	@ CIN			vs ATH
Sun, Sep 20th	@ CIN			vs ATH
Tue, Sep 22nd	vs MIA			@ BOS
Wed, Sep 23rd	vs MIA			@ BOS
Thu, Sep 24th	vs MIA			@ BOS
Fri, Sep 25th	@ BOS			@ KC
Sat, Sep 26th	@ BOS			@ KC
Sun, Sep 27th	@ BOS			@ KC
Thu, Apr 23rd	vs PHI	Cristopher Sanchez (13-4)	#4
Thu, May 14th	@ ATL	Chris Sale (12-6)	#5
Thu, May 28th	@ PIT	Paul Skenes (9-9)	#3
Thu, Jun 11th	@ COL	Ryan Feltner (3-5)	#432
Sun, Jun 14th	@ SF	Logan Webb (6-7)	#16
Mon, Jun 15th	vs COL	Michael Lorenzen (3-9)	#433
Thu, Jun 25th	@ NYM	Freddy Peralta (5-9)	#38
Fri, Jul 17th	vs MIN	Bailey Ober (7-3)	#83
Mon, Jul 27th	@ STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-8)	#125
Thu, Jul 30th	@ STL	Andre Pallante (11-6)	#115
Mon, Aug 3rd	vs LAD	Justin Wrobleski (11-2)	#90
Mon, Aug 17th	vs CWS
Mon, Aug 31st	vs MIL

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Ben Lively for Shota Imanaga (2026)

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