MLB Daily DeltaWeek 25 · September 10, 2026
Portrait of Dennis Santana
Dennis Santana
AZ · P
Change to
Jimmy Herget
COL · P
Change to
Who's more valuable, rest of season

Jimmy Herget.

He projects to help you in more roto categories the rest of the way — strikeouts and ERA. Dennis Santana’s box score looks better right now, but the luck-stripped projection flips it.

Head-to-head
K
ERA
WHIP
W
SV n/a

Jimmy Herget wins 2 categories (K, ERA); Dennis Santana wins 1 (WHIP); 1 even; SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Dennis Santana
94.1
Jimmy Herget
92.0
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Dennis Santana
12.7%
Jimmy Herget
12.3%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Dennis Santana
21.4%
Jimmy Herget
20.0%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Dennis Santana
33.2%
Jimmy Herget
29.6%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Dennis Santana
41.0%
Jimmy Herget
38.1%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Dennis Santana
9.0%
Jimmy Herget
9.0%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Dennis Santana
.332
Jimmy Herget
.328
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
Dennis Santana
3.945.38
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.81
4.34
Jimmy Herget
3.945.38
lg xERA 4.10
now 5.06
4.26
WHIPlower is better
Dennis Santana
1.301.55
now 1.48
1.37
Jimmy Herget
1.301.55
now 1.38
1.44

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Dennis Santana
4025
now 19
4
Jimmy Herget
4025
now 17
5
Winshigher is better
Dennis Santana
.0002.80
now 2
01
Jimmy Herget
.0002.80
now 0
00

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

If you already own them — trade angle
SellDennis Santana — sell.conf 0.73
Hold · leans sellJimmy Herget — hold.conf 0.60
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