MLB Daily DeltaWeek 18 · July 27, 2026
Portrait of Carmen Mlodzinski
Carmen Mlodzinski
PIT · P
Change to
Portrait of Jack Flaherty
Jack Flaherty
DET · P
Change to
Who's more valuable, rest of season

Jack Flaherty.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP. Carmen Mlodzinski’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 3 categories (K, ERA, WHIP); Carmen Mlodzinski wins 1 (W); SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
95.0
Jack Flaherty
92.7
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
9.6%
Jack Flaherty
12.2%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
18.5%
Jack Flaherty
26.2%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
30.2%
Jack Flaherty
27.6%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
46.3%
Jack Flaherty
46.2%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
7.4%
Jack Flaherty
8.4%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Carmen Mlodzinski
.340
Jack Flaherty
.323
stabilized — trust it · small sample yet · dashed = league avg · right = better
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The tape

Rest-of-season projection · bold = leads
rest-of-season projection current season projection range
Rate · earned-run quality
ERAlower is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
2.946.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 3.76
4.65
Jack Flaherty
2.946.63
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.81
4.30
WHIPlower is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
1.261.71
now 1.42
1.38
Jack Flaherty
1.261.71
now 1.61
1.36

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
4073.20
now 46
41
Jack Flaherty
4073.20
now 64
56
Winshigher is better
Carmen Mlodzinski
.0007
now 4
25
Jack Flaherty
.0007
now 0
00

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

If you already own them — trade angle
SellCarmen Mlodzinski — sell.conf 0.81
SellJack Flaherty — sell.conf 0.64
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