Roster player dossier · Almanac edition
Cleveland Guardians · bats R
Cade Smith.
HOT— whiff & command trending up · Whiff rate +12.8%form L14 · context only
Season production, recent form, handedness splits, and role context. Descriptive only—no live recommendation is shown here.
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Whiff rate is hot across 103 recent pitches versus a non-overlapping baseline.
Completed performance and hot form remain supporting evidence; neither creates a Posterior Decision on its own.
00 / Public almanac
Season stats and recent form · descriptive, not predictive.
Savant and arsenal
Expected contact, splits, and pitch shape.
4-seam
97.2
avg mph
Splitter
86.8
avg mph
Sweeper
85.4
avg mph
These MLB and Baseball Savant summaries describe completed performance windows. They are not a pending pick, model probability, edge, price, or betting instruction.
00.2 / Career lines
Season-by-season record · descriptive, not predictive.
Pitching · 3 seasons
MLB regular season
| Season | Tm | G | GS | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | BB/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CLE | 50 | 0 | 53.1 | 2.36 | 1.11 | 12.49 | 3.04 |
| 2025 | CLE | 76 |
00.3 / Last 12
Current performance across roughly four series · descriptive, not predictive.
Pitching · last 12 games
| Date | Opp | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/9 | @ CHW | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8/5 | vs NYM | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
00.4 / Statcast card
Season percentile ranks vs. the qualified MLB pool · descriptive, not predictive.
Statcast season card · 2026 · Pitching
Top-tier exit velocity with a heavy swing-and-miss profile.
Posterior percentiles vs. qualified MLB pool · Statcast window Apr 24 – Aug 7 · context only
Expected run prevention
xERA
79
3.28
Contact allowed
Barrel %
72
9.2%
Hard-Hit %
47
23.5%
Avg. Exit Velo
00.5 / Statcast form
Nightly Statcast trends · descriptive, not predictive.
Statcast form · Whiff and command
Whiffs and command are trending hot.
Posterior Statcast graph · through 2026-08-08 · context only
Whiff rate
40.0%
Baseline 27.2% · Δ +12.8%
Zone rate
43.7%
Baseline 45.6% · Δ -1.9%
Average velocity (mph)
95.6 mph
Baseline 93.1 mph · Δ +2.5 mph
Recent window
103
vs 298 baseline pitches
HOT · recent vs non-overlapping baselineAs of Aug 9, 2026
Statcast form — descriptive fan context from the point-in-time Statcast graph, not a betting recommendation. It does not move any Posterior probability.
01 / Pro decision context
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