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Kevin Gausman

Kevin Gausman — 9-12, 4.51 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

Last scored board
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No game on the current slate
Season line · ERA
4.51
9-12 · 184 K, 1.27 WHIP
Games graded
33
this season, box-score final
Kevin Gausman
PBats LThrows RChicago Cubs

Last scored matchup

Kevin isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 6 days ago, away at San Diego Padres on Thursday, October 1, 2026. This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.

Season line

32 starts, 9-12, 4.51 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 177.2 innings. He's struck out 184 over that span, against 47 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

Kevin 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

Kevin has 29 strikeouts in 25.7 innings across his last 5 starts, a 10.2 K/9, with a 4.91 ERA over that stretch and 4 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

Kevin has 185 strikeouts and 47 walks in 181.0 innings this season — 9.2 K/9 against 2.3 BB/9, a 3.9-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

Kevin has made 33 starts this season, averaging 5.5 innings with a 4.57 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 8 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

Kevin is averaging 5.3 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 7.0 and about 91 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.

His best start in the log

Kevin's high-water mark was Thursday, September 3, 2026 against MIL: 9 strikeouts over 7.0 innings, 1 earned run. 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

Kevin's score comes from the matchup, not his reputation. The model weighs how the opposing lineup handles his handedness, how many batters he's likely to face given recent workload, the park, and the weather — then normalizes 0–100 against every other arm on the slate. How those factors are weighted is our own, and it re-tunes weekly against real outcomes. We publish the score and grade it in public; that's the half you can check.

What we'd flag

Read this page knowing what it can't do. It can't show you a line no book posted — coverage peaks around 87% for confirmed starters. It can't see a lineup change that happens after the projection publishes. And it can't tell you anything useful from one game, because the model is only measurable across a season-sized sample.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Wednesday, September 30@ SD3.31530
Wednesday, September 23vs MIA5.77621
Tuesday, September 15vs ATL5.76520
Wednesday, September 9@ MIL4.06862
Thursday, September 3vs MIL7.09511
Saturday, August 29vs CIN5.07652
Monday, August 24@ AZ7.06301
Tuesday, August 18vs CWS4.35732
Thursday, August 13@ WSH4.77761
Friday, August 7@ KC7.04421
Saturday, August 1vs STL5.74911
Sunday, July 26@ BOS6.06531

Kevin Gausman — FAQ

Is Kevin Gausman playing today?

Kevin Gausman isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Thursday, October 1, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Kevin Gausman been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Kevin has 29 strikeouts in 25.7 innings, allowing 14 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Kevin Gausman'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).