Today's matchup
Today it's Philadelphia Phillies for Joshua, away. He shows up on 12 boards — home runs (100/100, #1), total bases (62.2/100, #50), hits (62/100, #62), fantasy points (50.4/100, #59). We've got him at 0.5 on the home runs board. That's one of the stronger spots on the board today. Open any board row for the full breakdown of what's driving it.
Small sample, handle with care
Joshua has just 36 at-bats in our graded season log — not enough to say much. He's hitting .139 across them, but a number built on this little data moves wildly with one good week. His confidence rating on any board reflects that: the model will still score his matchup, it's just honest that it's working with thin information. Treat the projection as a starting point, not a read.
He's a right-handed bat
Joshua hits from the right side, so the platoon math runs the other way from a lefty's. Right-handed bats face right-handed pitching most of the time, meaning his baseline is built against the harder side and a left-handed starter is the upgrade. That's why a righty's score can jump on a day nothing else about the matchup changed. The model weighs his rates against the specific handedness he's drawing rather than a blended season number, which is where a lot of the day-to-day movement in his score comes from.
Against Philadelphia Phillies
Joshua is 1-for-11 (.091) against Philadelphia Phillies in our log, over 3 games. Worth knowing, worth not over-reading. 11 at-bats against one club is a tiny sample, and the model treats it as a minor input next to what that pitching staff actually allows to his handedness. Batter-versus-pitcher history is the most quoted number in baseball and one of the least predictive.
His best game in the log
Joshua's biggest night was Saturday, August 15, 2026 at CHC — 3-for-4 with 3 homers, 5 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 Joshua a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — 1 time so far. He's appeared in 10 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
Joshua was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: home runs graded 100/100 while triples came in at 8.4/100. 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
Joshua'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 Joshua specifically, his sample is small (36 at-bats logged), and we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.