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Gerrit Cole

Gerrit Cole — 7-6, 3.11 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
3.11
7-6 · 100 K, 1.07 WHIP
Games graded
16
this season, box-score final
Gerrit Cole
PBats RThrows RNew York Yankees

Season line

16 starts, 7-6, 3.11 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 92.2 innings. He's struck out 100 over that span, against 20 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

Gerrit 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

Gerrit has 34 strikeouts in 30.7 innings across his last 5 starts, a 10.0 K/9, with a 1.47 ERA over that stretch and 8 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

Gerrit has 100 strikeouts and 20 walks in 92.7 innings this season — 9.7 K/9 against 1.9 BB/9, a 5.0-to-1 ratio. That's strong control, and it does more for his projection than the raw strikeout number does. Walks are the fastest way to shorten a start — an arm that doesn't issue them gets deeper into games, which is what the outs and strikeout lines are really pricing.

What his floor looks like

Gerrit has made 16 starts this season, averaging 5.8 innings with a 3.11 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 11 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

Gerrit is averaging 6.3 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 7.0 and about 94 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

Gerrit's high-water mark was Wednesday, July 22, 2026 against PIT: 11 strikeouts over 7.0 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.

How the model reads him

The number on Gerrit 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
Thursday, August 20@ BAL6.08411
Friday, August 14@ TOR6.05512
Saturday, August 8vs ATL7.09620
Sunday, August 2@ CHC5.75413
Tuesday, July 28@ CWS6.07402
Wednesday, July 22vs PIT7.011430
Friday, July 17vs LAD6.08421
Wednesday, July 8@ TB6.36731
Friday, July 3vs MIN5.07520
Saturday, June 27@ BOS5.35741
Monday, June 22@ DET4.35951
Tuesday, June 16vs CWS6.06322

Gerrit Cole — FAQ

How has Gerrit Cole been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Gerrit has 34 strikeouts in 30.7 innings, allowing 5 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Gerrit Cole'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).