Last scored matchup
Elmer isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 11 days ago, at home against Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, September 27, 2026, where he landed on outs recorded (79.5/100), strikeouts (56.3/100), fantasy points (54/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.
Season line
6 starts, 0-3, 5.40 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 26.2 innings. He's struck out 21 over that span, against 16 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
Elmer 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
Elmer has 18 strikeouts in 22.7 innings across his last 5 starts, a 7.1 K/9, with a 5.56 ERA over that stretch and 12 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.
What his floor looks like
Elmer has made 6 starts this season, averaging 4.4 innings with a 5.40 ERA across them. In the 6 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 1 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
Elmer is averaging 4.4 innings a start across his last 6 outings, with a high of 6.0 and about 83 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.
A long gap since his last start
Elmer hasn't started in 38 days. That's the single most useful warning on a pitcher's page, and it's the model's weakest spot. A gap that long usually means an injured-list stint, and a first start back is often on a strict pitch limit that no stat line reveals — books frequently don't post an outs line at all in that spot. Our projection is built on his healthy workload, so it will overshoot a shortened rehab start. Read any projection here with that in mind until he's stretched back out.
His best start in the log
Elmer's high-water mark was Wednesday, August 26, 2026 against HOU: 6 strikeouts over 6.0 innings, 3 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.
Where he lands across our boards
Elmer was scored on 6 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: outs recorded graded 79.5/100 while earned runs came in at 26.7/100. 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
Every arm on the slate goes through the same math, Elmer included. Opposing lineup, handedness, expected batters faced, park, weather — weighted, combined, and normalized 0–100. We keep the weighting to ourselves and re-tune it weekly on real results. What we don't keep is the record: every projection here is graded against the box score at the line the market offered.
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 Elmer specifically, he's coming off a 38-day gap.