Season line
4 starts, 3-3, 3.47 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 57.0 innings. He's struck out 57 over that span, against 14 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 left-handed
Tim is a left-hander, and that matters more for a starter than it does for most hitters. Lineups get built specifically to attack lefties — managers stack right-handed bats against them — so the lineup he draws on a given night swings his projection further than a righty's would. The model prices the actual lineup rather than a season-long rate for exactly that reason. A stacked righty lineup is the spot where his strikeout projection comes down hardest.
Against St. Louis Cardinals
Tim has faced St. Louis Cardinals 3 times in our log — 3 strikeouts over 3.0 innings. Head-to-head history is the input people weight most and the model weights least: a handful of starts against one club tells you less than the same club's current strikeout rate against his handedness, which is what actually feeds the projection.
His last 5 starts
Tim has 7 strikeouts in 5.0 innings across his last 5 starts, a 12.6 K/9, with a 1.80 ERA over that stretch and 2 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
Tim has 55 strikeouts and 15 walks in 56.3 innings this season — 8.8 K/9 against 2.4 BB/9, a 3.7-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
Tim has made 50 starts this season, averaging 1.1 innings with a 3.51 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 0 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
Tim is averaging 1.0 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 1.7 and about 17 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.
How the model reads him
Tim'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.