Not on the current slate
Blaze hasn't been scored in 29 days — his last matchup was against Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. A gap that long usually means an injury, a minor-league option, or a roster move rather than a rest day. Everything below is his most recent real production, not a projection.
He's in a cold stretch
Blaze is 9-for-35 (.257) across his last 10 games, down from .317 on the season. Slumps this size are mostly noise at this sample — 35 at-bats is a fortnight, not a trend — and the model treats it that way, discounting the cold run rather than writing him off. If the matchup underneath is good, he'll still grade well here. That's a feature, and sometimes it's wrong.
He's a right-handed bat
Blaze hits from the right side, so the platoon math runs the other way from a lefty's. Right-handed bats face right-handed pitching most of the time, meaning his baseline is built against the harder side and a left-handed starter is the upgrade. That's why a righty's score can jump on a day nothing else about the matchup changed. The model weighs his rates against the specific handedness he's drawing rather than a blended season number, which is where a lot of the day-to-day movement in his score comes from.
Floor and ceiling
Blaze has recorded at least one hit in 48 of 77 games he's batted in — 62% — with 21 multi-hit games among them. That's about average — most regulars land somewhere near it.
Home and away
Blaze is hitting .336 at home (45-for-134) and .296 on the road (34-for-115) across the season. There's not much in it, which is the normal case. Home-road splits get talked about far more than they hold up.
His best game in the log
Blaze's biggest night was Friday, September 4, 2026 against BOS — 3-for-4. That's the ceiling, not the expectation. The projection you'll see on a board is closer to his typical game than his best one, which is the whole point of projecting rather than remembering.
How our calls on Blaze have graded
In the 6 games where we ranked Blaze a top-20 hitter matchup, he recorded a hit 5 times — 83%. That's a thin sample and we'd treat it as such. Every one of those calls was graded against the real box score, misses included.
Where he lands across our boards
Blaze was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: singles graded 54.6/100 while runs came in at 11.1/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.
How the model reads him
Take the name off Blaze and the model still produces the same number, because it's scoring the matchup rather than the player. His splits against this handedness, what the opposing starter and bullpen actually allow, how many plate appearances he's likely to get, the park, the weather, how he's swinging lately. All of it lands on a 0–100 scale against everyone else playing today. We don't publish how it's weighted. We publish every result it produces.
What we'd flag
Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes.