Who Should I Trade?

Patrick Bailey for Will Smith (2026)

Summary
Stats
Projections
News & Notes
Schedule

Who Should I Trade? Player Summaries
	Experts' Pick
	Will Smith C - LAD	Patrick Bailey C - CLE
Expert Recommendation	100% Recommended by 6 of 6 experts	0% Recommended by 0 of 6 experts
Rankings

Rest of Season	# 130	‐
VBR	# 498	# 499

Projections

Runs	7	8
Home Runs	2	2
RBI	7	8
Stolen Bases	0	1
Batting Average	.251	.222

Misc

Injury Alert	IL60	-

Expert Ranks

Scott Pianowski Yahoo! Sports	# 194	‐

Dalton Del Don The Deep Shot	# 131	‐

Chris Welsh FantasyPros	# 151	‐

Mike Maher BettingPros	# 106	‐

Kelly Kirby FantasyPros	# 236	# 349

Kevin Spinelli KevScores	# 82	‐

Who Should I Trade? Player Statistics
	Will Smith C - LAD	Patrick Bailey C - CLE
2026 Stats


At Bats	173	252

Runs	23	23

Hits	43	49

Singles	32	34

Doubles	5	7

Triples	0	1

Home Runs	6	7

RBI	23	30

Stolen Bases	0	3

Caught Stealing	0	0

Walks	23	21

Strikeouts	34	70

Batting Average	.249	.194

On Base Pct	.338	.254

Slugging Pct	.382	.314

On-base Plus Slugging	.720	.567

Who Should I Trade? Player Projections
	Will Smith C - LAD	Patrick Bailey C - CLE
2026 Projections


At Bats	46	72

Runs	7	8

Hits	12	16

Singles	7	11

Doubles	2	3

Triples	0	0

Home Runs	2	2

RBI	7	8

Stolen Bases	0	1

Caught Stealing	0	0

Walks	6	6

Strikeouts	10	21

Batting Average	.251	.222

On Base Pct	.353	.281

Slugging Pct	.424	.348

On-base Plus Slugging	.777	.629

Who Should I Trade? Player Notes
	Will Smith C - LAD	Patrick Bailey C - CLE
News
	Will Smith will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Oklahoma City on Tuesday. Ari Koslow Sun, Aug 23rd	Patrick Bailey went 2-for-5 in a 9-1 win over the Rockies with a home run, a double, a run scored, three RBI, and one strikeout. Matthew Adam Sat, Aug 22nd
	Will Smith took live batting practice on Saturday. Ari Koslow Sat, Aug 22nd	Bailey went 2-for-3 in Thursday's 5-2 win over the Giants with a walk, one run scored, one RBI, one stolen base and one strikeout. Matthew Adam Fri, Aug 21st
	Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Will Smith could be sent on a rehab assignment next week. Ari Koslow Mon, Aug 17th	Patrick Bailey went 1-for-3 in a 5-0 win over the Diamondbacks on Sunday with a home run, a run scored, and one RBI. Matthew Adam Mon, Aug 3rd
	Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that Will Smith could progress to on-field batting practice this week. Ari Koslow Tue, Aug 11th	Patrick Bailey went 1-for-4 in a 3-1 loss to the Twins in 12 innings with a home run, a walk, one run scored, and one RBI. Matthew Adam Fri, Jul 24th
	Will Smith continues to work through a hitting progression. Ari Koslow Fri, Aug 7th	Patrick Bailey went 4-for-5 in Monday's 13-4 win over the Twins with a home run, two runs scored and two RBI. Matthew Adam Tue, Jul 21st
Notes
There are no recent notes for these players

Who Should I Trade? Player Schedules
Date	Opp	Opp Pitcher	VBR	Opp	Opp Pitcher	VBR
	Will Smith C - LAD			Patrick Bailey C - CLE
Thu, Mar 26th	vs ARI	Zac Gallen (3-9)	#194	@ SEA	Logan Gilbert (11-7)	#12
Fri, Mar 27th	vs ARI	Ryne Nelson (3-5)	#146	@ SEA	George Kirby (8-10)	#25
Sat, Mar 28th	vs ARI	Eduardo Rodriguez (13-4)	#99	@ SEA	Bryan Woo (9-8)	#15
Sun, Mar 29th				@ SEA	Emerson Hancock (7-7)	#71
Mon, Mar 30th	vs CLE	Parker Messick (10-8)	#32	@ LAD	Roki Sasaki (5-5)	#75
Tue, Mar 31st	vs CLE	Tanner Bibee (5-13)	#56	@ LAD	Shohei Ohtani (8-2)	#1
Wed, Apr 1st	vs CLE	Gavin Williams (12-7)	#17	@ LAD	Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12-7)	#7
Fri, Apr 3rd	@ WSH	Miles Mikolas (3-9)		vs CHC	Cade Horton (1-0)
Sun, Apr 5th	@ WSH	Foster Griffin (15-4)	#45	vs CHC	Shota Imanaga (8-9)	#24
Mon, Apr 6th	@ TOR	Max Scherzer (1-6)	#155	vs KC	Michael Wacha (7-8)	#68
Tue, Apr 7th	@ TOR	Kevin Gausman (7-11)	#27	vs KC	Noah Cameron (8-8)	#63
Wed, Apr 8th	@ TOR	Dylan Cease (8-5)	#11	vs KC	Cole Ragans (1-4)
Fri, Apr 10th	vs TEX	Kumar Rocker (5-10)	#131	@ ATL	Bryce Elder (8-7)	#133
Sat, Apr 11th	vs TEX	Jack Leiter (3-7)	#122	@ ATL	Martin Perez (8-8)	#248
Sun, Apr 12th	vs TEX	Jacob deGrom (9-8)	#9	@ ATL	Chris Sale (12-9)	#4
Mon, Apr 13th	vs NYM	David Peterson (7-7)	#86	@ STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-11)	#101
Tue, Apr 14th	vs NYM	Nolan McLean (9-8)	#35	@ STL	Michael McGreevy (5-9)	#90
Wed, Apr 15th	vs NYM	Clay Holmes (5-6)	#66	@ STL	Dustin May (6-8)	#44
Thu, Apr 16th				vs BAL	Shane Baz (4-14)	#64
Fri, Apr 17th	@ COL	Tomoyuki Sugano (12-7)	#438	vs BAL	Chris Bassitt (4-4)	#134
Sat, Apr 18th	@ COL	Ryan Feltner (5-8)	#437	vs BAL	Dean Kremer (2-4)	#74
Sun, Apr 19th	@ COL	Michael Lorenzen (3-11)	#420	vs BAL	Trevor Rogers (9-8)	#61
Mon, Apr 20th	@ COL	Jose Quintana (2-3)	#435	vs HOU	Spencer Arrighetti (7-6)	#231
Tue, Apr 21st	@ SF	Landen Roupp (7-13)	#93	vs HOU	Ryan Weiss (0-3)	#326
Wed, Apr 22nd	@ SF	Tyler Mahle (5-10)	#72	vs HOU	Peter Lambert (8-7)	#170
Fri, Apr 24th	vs CHC	Jameson Taillon (2-6)	#184	@ TOR	Max Scherzer (1-6)	#155
Sat, Apr 25th	vs CHC	Colin Rea (8-8)	#215	@ TOR	Kevin Gausman (7-11)	#27
Sun, Apr 26th	vs CHC	Shota Imanaga (8-9)	#24	@ TOR	Patrick Corbin (3-4)
Mon, Apr 27th	vs MIA	Chris Paddack (0-7)		vs TB	Steven Matz (5-4)	#152
Tue, Apr 28th	vs MIA	Janson Junk (6-8)	#119	vs TB	Nick Martinez (13-4)	#78
Wed, Apr 29th	vs MIA	Sandy Alcantara (13-8)	#58	vs TB	Drew Rasmussen (14-5)	#14
Fri, May 1st	@ STL	Matthew Liberatore (5-11)	#101	@ ATH	J.T. Ginn (8-8)	#197
Sat, May 2nd	@ STL	Michael McGreevy (5-9)	#90	@ ATH	Jacob Lopez (5-4)	#199
Sun, May 3rd	@ STL	Dustin May (6-8)	#44	@ ATH	Aaron Civale (6-7)	#234
Mon, May 4th	@ HOU	Steven Okert		@ KC	Michael Wacha (7-8)	#68
Tue, May 5th	@ HOU	Peter Lambert (8-7)	#170	@ KC	Stephen Kolek (4-3)
Wed, May 6th	@ HOU	Lance McCullers Jr. (2-3)		@ KC	Cole Ragans (1-4)
Thu, May 7th				@ KC	Seth Lugo (5-7)	#107
Fri, May 8th	vs ATL	Chris Sale (12-9)	#4	vs MIN	Connor Prielipp (3-7)	#91
Sat, May 9th	vs ATL	Spencer Strider (4-2)	#239	vs MIN	Joe Ryan (6-8)	#67
Sun, May 10th	vs ATL	Bryce Elder (8-7)	#133	vs MIN	Andrew Morris (4-5)	#137
Mon, May 11th	vs SF	Trevor McDonald (3-7)		vs LAA	Brent Suter (1-2)	#236
Tue, May 12th	vs SF	Adrian Houser (4-7)	#220	vs LAA	Walbert Urena (8-9)	#252
Wed, May 13th	vs SF	Robbie Ray (11-7)	#94	vs LAA	Reid Detmers (4-8)	#34
Fri, May 15th	@ LAA	Jack Kochanowicz (2-5)		vs CIN	Andrew Abbott (6-9)	#98
Sat, May 16th	@ LAA	Jose Soriano (10-7)	#47	vs CIN	Chris Paddack (0-7)
Sun, May 17th	@ LAA	Grayson Rodriguez (4-5)	#105	vs CIN	Brady Singer (5-11)	#154
Mon, May 18th	@ SD	Michael King (8-9)	#59	@ DET	Framber Valdez (8-9)	#41
Tue, May 19th	@ SD	Griffin Canning (4-9)	#166	@ DET	Keider Montero (9-8)	#153
Wed, May 20th	@ SD	Randy Vasquez (9-6)	#245	@ DET	Drew Anderson (4-5)	#88
Thu, May 21st				@ DET	Casey Mize (5-7)	#48
Fri, May 22nd	@ MIL	Logan Henderson (8-2)	#30	@ PHI	Cristopher Sanchez (16-4)	#3
Sat, May 23rd	@ MIL	Robert Gasser (3-5)	#102	@ PHI	Zack Wheeler (10-5)	#5
Sun, May 24th	@ MIL	Brandon Sproat (3-7)	#203	@ PHI	Andrew Painter (3-8)	#138
Mon, May 25th	vs COL	Tanner Gordon (0-4)	#370	vs WSH	PJ Poulin (3-0)
Tue, May 26th	vs COL	Kyle Freeland (4-10)	#423	vs WSH	Cade Cavalli (12-5)	#40
Wed, May 27th	vs COL	Tomoyuki Sugano (12-7)	#438	vs WSH	PJ Poulin (3-0)
Fri, May 29th	vs PHI	Zack Wheeler (10-5)	#5	vs BOS	Tyler Samaniego
Sat, May 30th	vs PHI	Jesus Luzardo (11-5)	#8	vs BOS	Sonny Gray (16-3)	#28
Sun, May 31st	vs PHI	Andrew Painter (3-8)	#138	vs BOS	Ranger Suarez (5-3)	#31
Tue, Jun 2nd	@ ARI	Michael Soroka (8-4)	#97	@ NYY	Cam Schlittler (11-6)	#13
Wed, Jun 3rd	@ ARI	Zac Gallen (3-9)	#194	@ NYY	Gerrit Cole (7-6)	#18
Thu, Jun 4th	@ ARI	Ryne Nelson (3-5)	#146	@ NYY	Carlos Rodon (4-2)	#46
Fri, Jun 5th	vs LAA	Reid Detmers (4-8)	#34	@ TEX	Kumar Rocker (5-10)	#131
Sat, Jun 6th	vs LAA	Jack Kochanowicz (2-5)		@ TEX	Jack Leiter (3-7)	#122
Sun, Jun 7th	vs LAA	Jose Soriano (10-7)	#47	@ TEX	Jacob deGrom (9-8)	#9
Mon, Jun 8th				vs NYY	Will Warren (8-6)	#60
Tue, Jun 9th	@ PIT	Paul Skenes (9-11)	#6	vs NYY	Gerrit Cole (7-6)	#18
Wed, Jun 10th	@ PIT	Jared Jones (2-5)	#43	vs NYY	Carlos Rodon (4-2)	#46
Fri, Jun 12th	@ CWS	Anthony Kay (9-6)	#171	vs DET	Jack Flaherty (3-8)	#110
Sat, Jun 13th	@ CWS	Sean Burke (7-6)	#76	vs DET	Tarik Skubal (8-7)	#2
Tue, Jun 16th	vs TB	Drew Rasmussen (14-5)	#14	@ MIL	Robert Gasser (3-5)	#102
Wed, Jun 17th	vs TB	Shane McClanahan (9-6)	#36	@ MIL	Brandon Sproat (3-7)	#203
Thu, Jun 18th				@ MIL	Shane Drohan (6-5)	#120
Fri, Jun 19th	vs BAL	Trey Gibson (1-3)	#398	@ HOU	Tatsuya Imai (6-4)	#128
Sat, Jun 20th	vs BAL	Trevor Rogers (9-8)	#61	@ HOU	Spencer Arrighetti (7-6)	#231
Sun, Jun 21st	vs BAL	Brandon Young (9-3)	#165	@ HOU	Kai-Wei Teng (5-6)	#196
Mon, Jun 22nd	@ MIN	Zebby Matthews (8-8)	#123	@ CWS	Anthony Kay (9-6)	#171
Tue, Jun 23rd	@ MIN	Kendry Rojas (1-1)	#278	@ CWS	Sean Burke (7-6)	#76
Wed, Jun 24th	@ MIN	Joe Ryan (6-8)	#67	@ CWS	Chris Murphy
Fri, Jun 26th	@ SD	Walker Buehler (8-6)	#226	vs SEA	Luis Castillo (4-10)	#109
Sat, Jun 27th	@ SD	Kyle Hart (0-3)	#162	vs SEA	Logan Gilbert (11-7)	#12
Sun, Jun 28th	@ SD	Michael King (8-9)	#59	vs SEA	Emerson Hancock (7-7)	#71
Mon, Jun 29th	@ ATH	Gage Jump (5-8)	#89	vs TEX	Tyler Alexander (4-2)	#157
Tue, Jun 30th	@ ATH	Jeffrey Springs (3-12)	#360	vs TEX	Jacob deGrom (9-8)	#9
Wed, Jul 1st	@ ATH	J.T. Ginn (8-8)	#197	vs TEX	MacKenzie Gore (7-9)	#38
Thu, Jul 2nd	vs SD	Randy Vasquez (9-6)	#245	vs CWS	Davis Martin (9-6)	#141
Fri, Jul 3rd	vs SD	Michael King (8-9)	#59	vs CWS	Anthony Kay (9-6)	#171
Sat, Jul 4th	vs SD	Wandy Peralta (2-2)	#219	vs CWS	Sean Burke (7-6)	#76
Sun, Jul 5th	vs SD	JP Sears (3-4)	#300	vs CWS	Chris Murphy
Tue, Jul 7th	vs COL	Michael Lorenzen (3-11)	#420	@ MIN	Taj Bradley (9-5)	#49
Wed, Jul 8th	vs COL	Gabriel Hughes (0-5)	#328	@ MIN	Connor Prielipp (3-7)	#91
Thu, Jul 9th				@ MIN	Bailey Ober (7-4)	#81
Fri, Jul 10th	vs ARI	Eduardo Rodriguez (13-4)	#99	@ MIA	Sandy Alcantara (13-8)	#58
Sat, Jul 11th	vs ARI	Brandon Pfaadt (7-1)	#70	@ MIA	Eury Perez (7-9)	#33
Sun, Jul 12th	vs ARI	Mitch Bratt (1-2)	#175	@ MIA	Tyler Phillips (3-6)	#272
Sat, Jul 18th				vs PIT	Mason Montgomery (5-3)	#83
Sun, Jul 19th	@ NYY	Ryan Yarbrough (2-1)	#183	vs PIT	Paul Skenes (9-11)	#6
Mon, Jul 20th	@ PHI	Cristopher Sanchez (16-4)	#3	vs MIN	Joe Ryan (6-8)	#67
Tue, Jul 21st	@ PHI	Zack Wheeler (10-5)	#5	vs MIN	Kendry Rojas (1-1)	#278
Wed, Jul 22nd	@ PHI	Aaron Nola (5-9)	#55	vs MIN	Bailey Ober (7-4)	#81
Thu, Jul 23rd				vs MIN	Taj Bradley (9-5)	#49
Fri, Jul 24th	@ NYM	Sean Manaea (4-5)	#62	@ TB	Shane McClanahan (9-6)	#36
Sat, Jul 25th	@ NYM	Nolan McLean (9-8)	#35	@ TB	Nick Martinez (13-4)	#78
Sun, Jul 26th	@ NYM	Freddy Peralta (5-11)	#52	@ TB	Drew Rasmussen (14-5)	#14
Tue, Jul 28th	vs SEA	Luis Castillo (4-10)	#109	@ CIN	Caleb Ferguson
Wed, Jul 29th	vs SEA	Emerson Hancock (7-7)	#71	@ CIN	Brady Singer (5-11)	#154
Fri, Jul 31st	vs BOS	Ranger Suarez (5-3)	#31	vs ARI	Mitch Bratt (1-2)	#175
Sat, Aug 1st	vs BOS	Payton Tolle (8-6)	#22	vs ARI	Kohl Drake (0-1)	#343
Sun, Aug 2nd	vs BOS	Jake Bennett (8-6)	#73	vs ARI	Merrill Kelly (8-12)	#139
Tue, Aug 4th	@ CHC	Javier Assad (6-1)	#207	vs NYM	Sean Manaea (4-5)	#62
Wed, Aug 5th	@ CHC	Shota Imanaga (8-9)	#24	vs NYM	Christian Scott (4-3)	#57
Thu, Aug 6th				vs NYM	Nolan McLean (9-8)	#35
Fri, Aug 7th	@ ARI	Merrill Kelly (8-12)	#139	@ CWS	Noah Schultz (3-9)	#393
Sat, Aug 8th	@ ARI	Brandon Pfaadt (7-1)	#70	@ CWS	Anthony Kay (9-6)	#171
Sun, Aug 9th	@ ARI	Eduardo Rodriguez (13-4)	#99	@ CWS	Davis Martin (9-6)	#141
Tue, Aug 11th	vs KC	Michael Wacha (7-8)	#68	@ DET	Drew Anderson (4-5)	#88
Wed, Aug 12th	vs KC	Daniel Lynch (4-4)	#187	@ DET	Framber Valdez (8-9)	#41
Thu, Aug 13th	vs MIL	Shane Drohan (6-5)	#120	@ DET	Keider Montero (9-8)	#153
Fri, Aug 14th	vs MIL	Robert Gasser (3-5)	#102	vs SD	Michael King (8-9)	#59
Sat, Aug 15th	vs MIL	Jacob Misiorowski (13-5)	#10	vs SD	Wandy Peralta (2-2)	#219
Sun, Aug 16th	vs MIL	Logan Henderson (8-2)	#30	vs SD	Casey Mize (5-7)	#48
Tue, Aug 18th	@ COL	Ryan Feltner (5-8)	#437	vs SF	Carson Whisenhunt (3-4)	#237
Wed, Aug 19th	@ COL	Kyle Freeland (4-10)	#423	vs SF	Matt Wilkinson (0-1)	#282
Thu, Aug 20th				vs SF	Landen Roupp (7-13)	#93
Fri, Aug 21st	vs PIT	Bubba Chandler (6-8)	#136	@ COL	Tanner Gordon (0-4)	#370
Sat, Aug 22nd	vs PIT	Jared Jones (2-5)	#43	@ COL	Gabriel Hughes (0-5)	#328
Sun, Aug 23rd	vs PIT	Lake Bachar (1-3)	#191	@ COL	Tomoyuki Sugano (12-7)	#438
Mon, Aug 24th				@ LAA	George Klassen (2-2)	#241
Tue, Aug 25th	@ ATL	Bryce Elder (8-7)	#133	@ LAA	Walbert Urena (8-9)	#252
Wed, Aug 26th	@ ATL	AJ Smith-Shawver (0-0)	#140	@ LAA	Grayson Rodriguez (4-5)	#105
Fri, Aug 28th	@ DET	Keider Montero (9-8)	#153	vs KC	Michael Wacha (7-8)	#68
Sat, Aug 29th	@ DET	Drew Anderson (4-5)	#88	vs KC	Daniel Lynch (4-4)	#187
Sun, Aug 30th	@ DET	Framber Valdez (8-9)	#41	vs KC	Seth Lugo (5-7)	#107
Tue, Sep 1st	vs STL	Michael McGreevy (5-9)	#90	vs TOR	Shane Bieber (5-2)	#69
Wed, Sep 2nd	vs STL			vs TOR	Spencer Arrighetti (7-6)	#231
Thu, Sep 3rd	vs STL	Quinn Mathews (0-2)	#202	vs TOR	Dylan Cease (8-5)	#11
Fri, Sep 4th	vs WSH			vs DET
Sat, Sep 5th	vs WSH			vs DET
Sun, Sep 6th	vs WSH			vs DET
Mon, Sep 7th	vs CIN			@ BAL
Tue, Sep 8th	vs CIN			@ BAL
Wed, Sep 9th	vs CIN			@ BAL
Fri, Sep 11th	@ MIA			@ MIN
Sat, Sep 12th	@ MIA			@ MIN
Sun, Sep 13th	@ MIA			@ MIN
Mon, Sep 14th	@ CIN			vs CWS
Tue, Sep 15th	@ CIN			vs CWS
Wed, Sep 16th	@ CIN			vs CWS
Fri, Sep 18th	vs SF			vs ATH
Sat, Sep 19th	vs SF			vs ATH
Sun, Sep 20th	vs SF			vs ATH
Tue, Sep 22nd	vs SD			@ BOS
Wed, Sep 23rd	vs SD			@ BOS
Thu, Sep 24th	vs SD			@ BOS
Fri, Sep 25th	@ SF			@ KC
Sat, Sep 26th	@ SF			@ KC
Sun, Sep 27th	@ SF			@ KC
Sat, Apr 4th	@ WSH	Jake Irvin (2-8)	#204
Thu, Apr 23rd	@ SF	Logan Webb (8-8)	#19
Thu, May 14th	vs SF	Landen Roupp (7-13)	#93
Mon, Jun 1st	@ ARI	Eduardo Rodriguez (13-4)	#99
Thu, Jun 11th	@ PIT	Mitch Keller (6-8)
Sun, Jun 14th	@ CWS	Bryan Hudson (3-4)	#127
Mon, Jun 15th	vs TB	Nick Martinez (13-4)	#78
Mon, Jul 6th	vs COL	Kyle Freeland (4-10)	#423
Fri, Jul 17th	@ NYY	Gerrit Cole (7-6)	#18
Thu, Jul 30th	vs SEA	Bryan Woo (9-8)	#15
Mon, Aug 3rd	@ CHC	Matthew Boyd (8-2)	#53
Mon, Aug 10th	vs KC	Noah Cameron (8-8)	#63
Mon, Aug 17th	@ COL	Tomoyuki Sugano (12-7)	#438
Thu, Aug 27th	@ ATL	Chris Sale (12-9)	#4
Thu, Sep 17th	@ CIN

Who Should I Trade?

Patrick Bailey for Will Smith (2026)

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