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Kevin Gausman

Kevin Gausman — 6-10, 4.29 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
4.29
6-10 · 131 K, 1.26 WHIP
Games graded
24
this season, box-score final
Kevin Gausman
PBats LThrows RChicago Cubs

Season line

24 starts, 6-10, 4.29 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 134.1 innings. He's struck out 131 over that span, against 37 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 23 strikeouts in 28.0 innings across his last 5 starts, a 7.4 K/9, with a 4.18 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

Kevin has 131 strikeouts and 37 walks in 134.3 innings this season — 8.8 K/9 against 2.5 BB/9, a 3.5-to-1 ratio. That's around league-typical control — enough to work deep when the lineup cooperates, not enough to bail him out of a bad matchup.

What his floor looks like

Kevin has made 24 starts this season, averaging 5.6 innings with a 4.29 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

Kevin is averaging 5.7 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 7.0 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

Kevin's high-water mark was Sunday, July 12, 2026 at SD: 8 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.

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
Friday, August 7@ KC7.04421
Saturday, August 1vs STL5.74911
Sunday, July 26@ BOS6.06531
Tuesday, July 21vs TB3.31942
Sunday, July 12@ SD6.08433
Monday, July 6@ SF5.38545
Tuesday, June 30vs NYM6.07512
Thursday, June 25vs TEX6.041062
Friday, June 19@ CHC2.03774
Saturday, June 13vs NYY7.07112
Sunday, June 7vs BAL5.05540
Tuesday, June 2@ ATL6.08542

Kevin Gausman — FAQ

How has Kevin Gausman been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Kevin has 23 strikeouts in 28.0 innings, allowing 13 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).