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Dylan Cease

Dylan Cease — 8-5, 2.37 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
2.37
8-5 · 209 K, 1.06 WHIP
Games graded
25
this season, box-score final
Dylan Cease
PBats RThrows RToronto Blue Jays

Season line

24 starts, 8-5, 2.37 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 144.1 innings. He's struck out 209 over that span, against 64 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.

He throws right-handed

Dylan throws right-handed, which is the ordinary case and means fewer wild swings in the lineup he faces. Opposing managers aren't restacking against him the way they would a left-hander, so his projection moves more on the quality of the lineup than on its handedness. What does move it: how deep he's been going lately, and whether the lineup in front of him strikes out.

His last 5 starts

Dylan has 42 strikeouts in 31.0 innings across his last 5 starts, a 12.2 K/9, with a 2.03 ERA over that stretch and 16 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.

Strikeouts and control

Dylan has 212 strikeouts and 65 walks in 145.3 innings this season — 13.1 K/9 against 4.0 BB/9, a 3.3-to-1 ratio. That walk rate is the risk in every projection on him. Free passes run up pitch counts, and a short outing caps the strikeout and outs numbers no matter how favourable the lineup looks. His floor is genuinely lower than his stuff suggests.

What his floor looks like

Dylan has made 25 starts this season, averaging 5.8 innings with a 2.35 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 10 times. That ratio is the honest read on his floor, and it's what separates an arm worth projecting on the outs board from one whose good starts are unpredictable enough that the market prices them better than we do.

How long he goes

Dylan is averaging 5.9 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 9.0 and about 96 pitches a night. He's going deep enough that the outs and strikeout lines stay live into the seventh, which is where most of the value on those boards sits. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.

His best start in the log

Dylan's high-water mark was Saturday, July 25, 2026 at BOS: 12 strikeouts over 9.0 innings, 0 earned runs. One start doesn't set a projection — the model works off the blend of his recent work against the specific lineup in front of him — but it does show the ceiling when the matchup lines up.

How the model reads him

The number on Dylan is about tonight, not about him. Strip out the name and the model is asking one question: what does this specific lineup do to this kind of arm, in this park, for as many batters as he's likely to face? That gets scored against every other starter on the slate. The combination math is proprietary and re-tuned every week. The grading isn't — it's all public, including the misses.

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.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Saturday, August 22@ NYY6.78215
Sunday, August 16vs NYY6.310223
Tuesday, August 11vs BOS5.07534
Thursday, August 6@ CHC7.010201
Friday, July 31vs STL6.07313
Saturday, July 25@ BOS9.012103
Monday, July 20vs TB6.07731
Tuesday, July 14@ NL1.03001
Wednesday, July 8@ SF8.011103
Friday, July 3@ SEA7.09301
Saturday, June 27vs TEX4.710445
Monday, June 22vs HOU5.78324

Dylan Cease — FAQ

How has Dylan Cease been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Dylan has 42 strikeouts in 31.0 innings, allowing 7 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Dylan Cease'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).