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Chris Sale or Paul Skenes

Who Should I Start? - Week 8 • Start New
Chris Sale

Chris Sale

SPAtlanta Braves ATL
Paul Skenes

Paul Skenes

SPPittsburgh Pirates PIT
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🔓 EXPERT ANALYSIS

Owners starting Sale over Skenes

 
 
 
 
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Includes Detailed Projections

Latest News Chris Sale
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🔓 EXPERT ANALYSIS

Owners starting Skenes over Sale

 
 
 
 
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Latest News Paul Skenes
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Performance Chris Sale
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ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
0.001-0001011.171
Season stats based on the past 7 days

ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
0.822-0001911.182
Season stats based on the past 14 days
Performance Paul Skenes
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ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
6.750-000722.001
Season stats based on the past 7 days

ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
6.750-000722.001
Season stats based on the past 14 days
Next Up Own/Start Comparison
OWN/START Chris Sale
OWN
100%
No change since last week.
START
60%
+5.43 compared to last week
OWN/START Paul Skenes
OWN
94%
+19.66 compared to last week
START
52%
+45.24 compared to last week
Next Up Consensus Rankings
Expert Consensus Chris Sale
20th
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Expert Consensus Paul Skenes
46th
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Next Up Player Breakdowns
Breakdown Chris Sale

    Overview

  • He is eligible to play multiple positions including: P SP . However, he plays P most often.
  • Experts rank this player at 20th among SP's. Based on his stats from the past 60 days, he is currently ranked 14th.
  • The current leader among SP's is Logan Allen
  • He is putting up better numbers than the experts expected him to.
  • Trending Pitching Stats

  • Top 20 in WHIP and is currently ranked 20th with 1.04
  • Top 75 in ERA and is currently ranked 58th with 3.51
  • Top 100 in strikeouts and is currently ranked 77th with 106
  • Top 100 in wins and is currently ranked 86th
  • Slight decline in numbers lately at 1.8 PPG.
  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: W: -1, L: -4, WHIP: -0.151, ERA: -1.385, K's: -73, Walks: -21
Breakdown Paul Skenes

    Overview

  • Experts rank this player at 46th among SP's. Based on his stats from the past 60 days, he is currently ranked 464th.
  • The current leader among SP's is Logan Allen
  • Can't be doing much worse than he is right now. Failing to live up to expectations is one thing, but playing this bad is another.
  • Trending Pitching Stats

  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: W: EVEN, L: EVEN, WHIP: +2, ERA: +6.75, K's: +7, Walks: +2
  • The season is still young, expect things to change quite a bit.
Next Up Health Check
Injury Chris Sale

No Injury Reported

Injury Paul Skenes

No Injury Reported

Next Up Matchup Comparison
Matchups Chris Sale
DateOpponentResult
May 13VS CHCShota Imanaga
May 14VS CHCJameson Taillon
May 15VS CHCJavier Assad
May 17VS SDMatt Waldron
May 18VS SDYu Darvish
May 19VS SDRandy Vasquez
ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
nan-nan0
Season stats based on this weeks opponents
Matchups Paul Skenes
DateOpponentResult
May 13@MILColin Rea
May 14@MILJoe Ross
May 15@MILRobert Gasser
May 16@CHCJustin Steele
May 17@CHCKyle Hendricks
May 18@CHCShota Imanaga
May 19@CHC
ERA W-L HLD SV SO WLK WHIP GP
6.750-000722.001
Season stats based on this weeks opponents
Next Up Ratings Comparison
Rating Chris Sale
16.70
FantasySP Player Rating
Rating Paul Skenes
9.22
FantasySP Player Rating
Next Up Career Comparison
Career Chris Sale
YEAR TM APP INN PC K WLK SV W-L ERA WHIP K/9 PTS
2010 CHW 21 21.0 392 32 10 4 2-1 2.14 1.19 13.7 121
2011 CHW 58 61.2 1104 79 27 8 2-2 3.21 1.28 11.5 259
2012 CHW 30 189.2 3016 192 51 0 17-8 3.08 1.14 9.1 577
2013 CHW 30 212.0 3247 226 46 0 11-14 3.14 1.08 9.6 591
2014 CHW 24 159.0 2535 188 36 0 10-4 2.32 0.96 10.6 498
2015 CHW 31 206.1 3323 274 42 0 13-11 3.45 1.1 12 625
2016 CHW 32 226.2 3431 233 45 0 17-10 3.38 1.04 9.3 645
2017 BOS 32 212.0 3428 308 43 0 17-8 2.93 0.98 13.1 701
2018 BOS 27 158.0 2525 237 34 0 12-4 2.11 0.86 13.5 552
2019 BOS 25 145.0 2466 218 37 0 6-11 4.47 1.1 13.5 411
2021 BOS 10 45.0 749 56 15 0 4-2 4.2 1.33 11.2 104
2022 BOS 2 7.1 102 5 1 0 0-1 2.45 0.82 6.1 6
2023 BOS 20 102.2 1670 125 29 0 6-5 4.3 1.13 11 246
2024 ATL 7 42.2 668 52 8 0 5-1 2.95 0.98 11 131
ON PACE 30 185 2924 227 35 0 21-4 2.95 0.98 11 575
3-YEAR AVG 11 50 840 62 15 0 3-3 4.18 1.18 10.8 119
Career 349 1775.0 28656 2225 424 0 0-0 3.22 1.07 11.3
Career Paul Skenes
YEAR TM APP INN PC K WLK SV W-L ERA WHIP K/9 PTS
2024 PIT 1 4.0 84 7 2 0 0-0 6.75 2 15.8 8
ON PACE 3 16 331 27 7 0 0-0 6.75 2 15.8 31
3-YEAR AVG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 NAN NAN NAN 0
Career 1 4.0 84 7 2 0 0-0 6.75 2 15.8
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