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Jose Altuve or Josh Smith

Who Should I Start? - Week 30 • Start New
Jose Altuve

Jose Altuve

2BHouston Astros HOU
Josh Smith

Josh Smith

3BTexas Rangers TEX
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🔓 EXPERT ANALYSIS

Owners starting Altuve over Smith

 
 
 
 
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Latest News Jose Altuve
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🔓 EXPERT ANALYSIS

Owners starting Smith over Altuve

 
 
 
 
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Latest News Josh Smith
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Performance Jose Altuve
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AVG HR RBI R OBP SLG SB GP
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Season stats based on the past 7 days

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Performance Josh Smith
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Season stats based on the past 14 days
Next Up Own/Start Comparison
OWN/START Jose Altuve
OWN
94%
-0.32 compared to last week
START
94%
-0.32 compared to last week
OWN/START Josh Smith
OWN
29%
-9.48 compared to last week
START
12%
+0.65 compared to last week
Next Up Consensus Rankings
Expert Consensus Jose Altuve
2nd
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Expert Consensus Josh Smith
Not Ranked
Average Ranking of Fantasy Experts
Next Up Player Breakdowns
Breakdown Jose Altuve

    Overview

  • He is eligible to play multiple positions including: 2B DH . However, he plays 2B most often.
  • Experts rank this player at 3rd among 2B's. Based on his stats from the past 60 days, he is currently ranked 4th.
  • The current leader among 2B's is Gleyber Torres
  • He is putting up the kind of numbers the experts expected him to.
  • In the past two weeks he has had an awful lot of time off. Either he isn't an every day player or he is coming back from an injury of some sort. I suggest checking out his news page to get a closer look.
  • Trending Batting Stats

  • Ranked 160th in BABIP (Batting Average on Balls In Play) with 0.308
  • Top 100 in batting average with 0.279 and is currently ranked 80th
  • Top 100 on base percentage and is currently ranked 82nd with 0.348
  • Not too impressive with slugging percentage currently ranked 109th with 0.442
  • Top 100 in on base plus slugging and is currently ranked 89th with 0.790
  • Not very impressive in steals and is currently ranked 122nd with 7
  • Not too impressive and is currently ranked 198th in RBI with 16
  • Top 50 in runs scored and is currently ranked 41st with 27
  • Slight decline in numbers lately at 2.6 PPG.
  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: AVG: -0.008, OBP: -0.033, HRs: +2, RBI: +14, Runs: +16, Wlks: +2, Stls: +8,
Breakdown Josh Smith

    Overview

  • He is eligible to play multiple positions including: 3B SS DH . However, he plays 3B most often.
  • Experts don't even rank him among 3B's. Based on his stats from the past 60 days, he is currently ranked 25th.
  • The current leader among 3B's is Jose Ramirez
  • In the past two weeks he has had an awful lot of time off. Either he isn't an every day player or he is coming back from an injury of some sort. I suggest checking out his news page to get a closer look.
  • Trending Batting Stats

  • Ranked 198th in BABIP (Batting Average on Balls In Play) with 0.292
  • Ranked 250th in batting average with 0.227
  • Not overly impressive with on base percentage currently ranked 317th with 0.270
  • Not too impressive with slugging percentage currently ranked 321st with 0.305
  • Not too impressive with on base plus slugging currently ranked 336th with 0.575
  • Not very impressive in steals and is currently ranked 416th with 4
  • Not too impressive and is currently ranked 306th in RBI with 11
  • Not too impressive and is currently ranked 255th in runs scored with 14
  • Slight decline in numbers lately at 2.9 PPG.
  • At this point in the season his numbers compared to last years: AVG: +0.258, OBP: +0.336, HRs: +13, RBI: +62, Runs: +67, Wlks: +46, Stls: +11,
Next Up Health Check
Injury Jose Altuve

No Injury Reported

Injury Josh Smith

No Injury Reported

Next Up Matchup Comparison
Matchups Jose Altuve
DateOpponentResult
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Matchups Josh Smith
DateOpponentResult
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Next Up Ratings Comparison
Rating Jose Altuve
9.84
FantasySP Player Rating
Rating Josh Smith
4.89
FantasySP Player Rating
Next Up Career Comparison
Career Jose Altuve
YEAR TM GP H HR R RBI SB BB AVG OBP SLG PTS
2011 HOU 55 57 2 25 11 7 5 N/A N/A N/A 101
2012 HOU 147 167 7 80 37 33 40 .290 .340 .399 416
2013 HOU 152 176 5 64 52 35 32 .281 .314 .359 401
2014 HOU 142 200 6 74 53 44 33 .339 .377 .453 490
2015 HOU 154 200 15 86 67 39 33 .313 .353 .459 524
2016 HOU 161 215 24 108 96 30 60 .336 .395 .530 628
2017 HOU 153 204 24 112 81 32 58 .346 .410 .547 596
2018 HOU 137 168 13 84 61 16 55 .315 .384 .449 433
2019 HOU 142 174 36 103 83 8 46 .302 .355 .559 526
2020 HOU 60 61 10 43 29 2 28 .257 .341 .430 183
2021 HOU 160 178 35 136 89 7 71 .271 .343 .483 683
2022 HOU 145 154 28 101 53 18 63 .282 .366 .500 578
2023 HOU 110 126 21 87 57 15 46 .308 .384 .531 472
2024 HOU 155 186 20 94 66 22 47 .293 .348 .436 562
3-YEAR AVG 138 153 28 108 66 13 60 .284 .361 .501 578
Career 1873 2266 246 1197 835 308 617 .312 .370 .472
Career Josh Smith
YEAR TM APP INN PC K WLK SV W-L ERA WHIP K/9 PTS
2015 CIN 9 32.2 662 30 21 0 0-4 6.89 1.93 8.3 39
2016 CIN 32 57.1 1042 48 26 0 3-3 4.87 1.45 7.5 107
2017 OAK 26 35.0 586 25 15 0 2-1 4.89 1.43 6.4 59
3-YEAR AVG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 NAN NAN NAN 0
Career 67 122.2 2290 103 62 0 0-0 5.5 1.6 7.6
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