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Drew Cavanaugh

Drew Cavanaugh — hitting .222 in our graded log. The model's read on his matchups, and where it's been right.

Last scored board
45.2
Singles · @ BOS · 2026-08-22
Our calls on him · hits
100%
record builds as games settle
Games graded
33
this season, box-score final
Drew Cavanaugh
CBats LThrows RSan Francisco Giants
Singles45.2/100proj 0.6Runs42.1/100proj 0.5Total Bases40.8/100proj 1.5Hits37.6/100proj 0.9H+R+RBI36.2/100proj 1.6RBIs28.2/100proj 0.4Doubles25.9/100proj 0.2Fantasy Points24.1/100proj 5.9Triples12.6/100proj 0Walks12.6/100proj 0.3Stolen Bases10.9/100proj 0Home Runs6.7/100proj 0.1

Last scored matchup

Drew isn't on today's slate. He was last scored yesterday, away at Boston Red Sox on Saturday, August 22, 2026, where he landed on singles (45.2/100), runs (42.1/100), total bases (40.8/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.

Recent form

Drew is 5-for-28 (.179) over his last 10 games, in line with his .222 season line. No hot streak to fade, no slump to buy — the matchup is doing the work in his score, which is the normal case. The full game log is below.

What kind of hitter he is

Drew strikes out a lot — 24 strikeouts in 81 at-bats, roughly 30%. That cuts both ways in our numbers. 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. Against a high-strikeout arm his score will fall further than a contact hitter's would.

He's a left-handed bat

Drew 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

Drew has recorded at least one hit in 11 of 31 games he's batted in — 35% — with 7 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

Drew is hitting .262 at home (11-for-42) and .179 on the road (7-for-39) 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

Drew's biggest night was Sunday, August 16, 2026 against COL — 2-for-5. 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 Drew a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — 3 times so far. He's appeared in 33 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

Drew was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: singles graded 45.2/100 while home runs came in at 6.7/100. 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 Drew 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 Drew specifically, his sample is small (81 at-bats logged), and we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.

Recent game log

DateOppABHHRRRBI
Friday, August 21@ BOS30000
Thursday, August 20@ CLE20000
Wednesday, August 19@ CLE30000
Sunday, August 16vs COL52000
Saturday, August 15vs COL30010
Wednesday, August 12vs HOU21000
Tuesday, August 11vs HOU42011
Monday, August 10vs HOU40000
Sunday, August 9vs DET20000
Saturday, August 8vs DET00000
Wednesday, August 5@ TEX42000
Sunday, August 2@ SD30001

Drew Cavanaugh — FAQ

Is Drew Cavanaugh playing today?

Drew Cavanaugh isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Saturday, August 22, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Drew Cavanaugh been hitting lately?

Drew is 5-for-28 (.179) over his last 10 games, against .222 on the season across 81 at-bats in our log. The full game-by-game log is on this page.

Which MatchWiz boards does Drew Cavanaugh appear on?

Drew was scored on 12 boards in his last matchup — singles, runs, total bases, hits, h+r+rbi. Each one asks a different question about the same game, so his score can be strong on one and weak on another.

Are Drew Cavanaugh's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).