Dylan Cease Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 2" / 195 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 12/28/1995 (26)
- Experience
- 1
- College
- None
Dylan Cease Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Dylan Cease News
Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Dylan Cease continues to thrive on the mound this season. After leading the league in strikeouts per nine frames with a 12.3% metric last season, Cease is again leading the league in the same metric, this time at 13.8%. He's also sporting a 3.09 ERA and a 2.16 FIP in 43.2 frames of work, to go along with 67 strikeouts and 17 walks. In his most recent outing, he limited the Kansas City Royals to seven hits and a pair of walks in 5.2 shutout innings while registering nine strikeouts. His next scheduled start will come Tuesday in Chicago against the Boston Red Sox. Fantasy managers will definitely want to start Cease for that one. Entering play on Monday, 15 different teams had a higher collective wRC+ than the Red Sox.
Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Dylan Cease wasn't his sharpest on Thursday, allowing six earned runs over four innings during his club's 15-7 loss to the Yankees. He did strike out 11 batters on the night, but the two walks and six hits, including two homers off the bat of Giancarlo Stanton, was enough to keep him from going out for the fifth inning. Luckily, his offense was able to bail him out for a no-decision to keep his record at 3-1, but he did see his ERA jump from 2.38 to 3.55 after this game. It's still been an impressive year for the 26-year-old who owns a 58/15 K/BB through 38 IP as he'll look to right the ship in his next start versus the Royals.
Chicago White Sox right-hander Dylan Cease was dominant in a 3-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday. Cease tossed seven shutout innings of one-hit ball while striking out 11 and walking none. The 26-year-old notched 11 swinging strikes on the way to improving his record to 3-1 on the season. Cease has taken a big step forward in 2022, posting a 2.48 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, and 39 strikeouts over 29 innings of work. The budding ace will be back at it on Sunday on the road against the Boston Red Sox.
Batting Order
| 1 | Tim Anderson |
| 2 | Josh Harrison |
| 3 | Andrew Vaughn |
| 4 | José Abreu |
| 5 | Yasmani Grandal |
| 6 | AJ Pollock |
| 7 | Gavin Sheets |
| 8 | Jake Burger |
| 9 | Adam Engel |
Dylan Cease Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
| 1 | Tim Anderson |
| 2 | Josh Harrison |
| 3 | Andrew Vaughn |
| 4 | José Abreu |
| 5 | Yasmani Grandal |
| 6 | AJ Pollock |
| 7 | Gavin Sheets |
| 8 | Jake Burger |
| 9 | Adam Engel |
Cease followed in the footsteps of teammate Lucas Giolito last season, going from an out-of-control, high-velocity disaster (13.3% BB and 6.36 FIP in 2020) to a breakout star with the help of pitching guru Ethan Katz, who took over as the pitching coach for Chicago in 2021. Cease's 13-7 record and 3.91 ERA were good enough on their own, but a tantalizing 3.41 FIP and 22.3% K-BB ratio suggest the ceiling could be even higher for Cease. At 26 years old with a sturdy supporting cast around him, Cease could be primed to take another leap forward in 2022. The biggest obstacle for him is control, as the young righty has shown a tendency to unravel at any given moment. His 9.6% BB rate was the second-highest walk rate among qualified pitchers in 2021, and Cease struggled with an 11.6% walk rate in his final six starts last season. The walks were held in check thanks to a drastic uptick in chase rate (32.5% O-swing rate in 2021 vs. 26.4% in 2020), meaning opponents were now swinging at pitches they used to watch whizz by and get called balls. This approach can result in both a reduced walk rate and a healthy increase in strikeouts for the pitcher, but is reliant on heavy breaking ball usage and can result in turbulence on a start-by-start basis. When Cease doesn't have his best stuff, or scouting reports help batters better recognize his pitches, the bottom could fall out as we saw in 2019-2020 with him. There's a lot of upside in this profile, but it doesn't come without risk. Cease is reminiscent of a pre-2021 Robbie Ray. Big strikeouts and big potential, but not without significant drawbacks with control and efficiency. His NFBC ADP has him going around pick 86 (As of Jan. 2022), which seems fair given the pitchers going around him (Frankie Montas, Alek Manoah), but count on Cease as more of a risk/reward number three than a reliable number two if you can help it.
