MLB Daily DeltaWeek 27 · September 28, 2026
Portrait of Andrew Painter
Andrew Painter
PHI · P
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Portrait of Jack Flaherty
Jack Flaherty
DET · P
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Who's more valuable, rest of season

Jack Flaherty.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — WHIP. Andrew Painter’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.

Head-to-head
K
ERA
WHIP
▶
W
SV n/a

Jack Flaherty wins 1 categories (WHIP); Andrew Painter wins 0 (none); 3 even; SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Andrew Painter
96.6
Jack Flaherty
92.7
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
12.6%
Jack Flaherty
12.2%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
20.8%
Jack Flaherty
26.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Andrew Painter
33.8%
Jack Flaherty
27.6%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Andrew Painter
35.1%
Jack Flaherty
46.2%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Andrew Painter
8.1%
Jack Flaherty
8.4%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Andrew Painter
.322
Jack Flaherty
.323
stabilized — trust it · small sample yet · dashed = league avg · right = better
05

The tape

Rest-of-season projection · bold = leads
rest-of-season projection current season projection range
Rate · earned-run quality
ERAlower is better
Andrew Painter
3.716.41
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.74
4.31
Jack Flaherty
3.716.41
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.33
WHIPlower is better
Andrew Painter
1.261.71
now 1.52
1.37
Jack Flaherty
1.261.71
now 1.61
1.36

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Andrew Painter
4089.60
now 43
0
Jack Flaherty
4089.60
now 64
0
Winshigher is better
Andrew Painter
.0001.48
now 1
0–0
Jack Flaherty
.0001.48
now 0
0–0

SV — not applicable. Both pitch out of the rotation.

If you already own them — trade angle
SellAndrew Painter — sell.conf 0.65
SellJack Flaherty — sell.conf 0.66
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