Last scored matchup
Daniel isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 4 days ago, at home against Chicago White Sox on Saturday, October 3, 2026, where he landed on singles (45.4/100), rbis (41.8/100), hits (34.4/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.
What kind of hitter he is
Daniel strikes out a lot — 77 strikeouts in 240 at-bats, roughly 32%. That cuts both ways in the WizLine. It drags his floor on the hits board, since he needs contact to get there. But it barely dents the power boards, where one swing settles it — he's got 7 homers. Against a high-strikeout arm his score will fall further than a contact hitter's would.
He's a left-handed bat
Daniel hits from the left side, and that's the first thing the model looks at. Left-handed hitters see right-handed pitching most nights, which is the favourable side — so a lefty bat's baseline is set against righties, and drawing a left-handed starter is a genuine downgrade rather than a rounding error. When you see his score fall on a day he's still in the lineup, an opposing lefty is usually why. Handedness also shapes the park read: pull-side geometry matters more for a left-handed swing than the raw park factor suggests.
Floor and ceiling
Daniel has recorded at least one hit in 41 of 77 games he's batted in — 53% — 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
Daniel is hitting .231 at home (21-for-91) and .208 on the road (31-for-149) 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
Daniel's biggest night was Sunday, September 27, 2026 at KC — 2-for-4 with 1 homer, 1 driven in. 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 Daniel a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — 3 times so far. He's appeared in 83 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
Daniel was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: singles graded 45.4/100 while stolen bases came in at 9.4/100. 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
Daniel's score rates the spot in front of him, not the name on the jersey. It weighs his rates against the kind of arm he's facing — handedness matters a lot — set against what that pitcher and his bullpen give up, then adjusts for expected playing time, park, weather, and recent form, normalized 0–100 across the slate. The weighting is proprietary and re-tuned weekly; the grading is public, and that's the half that proves anything.
What we'd flag
Books don't price every player — coverage tops out around 87% even for confirmed starters, so "no line" here usually means no book posted one rather than a gap in our data. Lineups change late, and an afternoon projection can be stale by first pitch. And the model is tuned across hundreds of graded outcomes, so one game tells you nothing about whether it's working. For Daniel specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.