Today's matchup
Cooper is hosting Atlanta Braves on the Sunday, August 23, 2026 slate. He shows up on 12 boards — stolen bases (45.4/100), singles (43.2/100), hits (37.3/100), fantasy points (28.5/100). We've got him at 0.1 on the stolen bases board. Open any board row for the full breakdown of what's driving it.
He's in a cold stretch
Cooper is 4-for-31 (.129) across his last 10 games, down from .259 on the season. Slumps this size are mostly noise at this sample — 31 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
Cooper 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
Cooper has recorded at least one hit in 25 of 46 games he's batted in — 54% — with 10 multi-hit games among them. That's a boom-or-bust profile. He'll carry a game outright and then go quiet for three, so his hits-board score tends to sit below hitters with worse power and better contact.
Home and away
Cooper is hitting .212 at home (17-for-80) and .317 on the road (20-for-63) across the season. That's a real-looking split, and it's the kind of thing that's usually part park and part noise. The model doesn't apply a blanket home-road adjustment — it prices the actual ballpark he's standing in, which is the part that carries signal.
His best game in the log
Cooper's biggest night was Tuesday, August 4, 2026 against PIT — 2-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.
No graded record on him yet
We haven't ranked Cooper a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — not once so far. He's appeared in 47 graded games, so the log below is real; there just isn't a track record on our calls to show. It'll build here if the matchups start landing his way.
Where he lands across our boards
Cooper was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: stolen bases graded 45.4/100 while home runs came in at 9.1/100. 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 Cooper 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. For Cooper specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.