MLB Daily DeltaWeek 20 · August 8, 2026
Jared Jones
PIT · P
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Portrait of Lucas Giolito
Lucas Giolito
SD · P
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Who's more valuable, rest of season

Jared Jones.

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

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

Jared Jones wins 3 categories (K, ERA, WHIP); Lucas Giolito wins 1 (W); SV n/a.

04

Under the hood

Underlying skill — each value vs league avg
Fastball Velolg 94.0 · higher = better
Jared Jones
98.4
Lucas Giolito
90.8
Swinging-Strike %lg 11.0% · higher = better
Jared Jones
14.6%
Lucas Giolito
9.8%
Strikeout %lg 22.0% · higher = better
Jared Jones
27.1%
Lucas Giolito
13.0%
Chase %lg 28.5% · higher = better
Jared Jones
29.3%
Lucas Giolito
19.0%
Hard-Hit % Allowedlg 40.0% · lower = better
Jared Jones
39.7%
Lucas Giolito
43.8%
Barrel % Allowedlg 8.0% · lower = better
Jared Jones
7.9%
Lucas Giolito
4.2%
xwOBA Allowedlg .315 · lower = better
Jared Jones
.284
Lucas Giolito
.357
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
Jared Jones
28.25
lg xERA 4.10
now 10.38
3.33
Lucas Giolito
28.25
lg xERA 4.10
now 4.97
4.10
WHIPlower is better
Jared Jones
.9002.44
now 2.08
1.19
Lucas Giolito
.9002.44
now 1.74
1.30

Volume · rest of season
Strikeoutshigher is better
Jared Jones
4052.20
now 6
39
Lucas Giolito
4052.20
now 6
21
Winshigher is better
Jared Jones
.0009.80
now 0
00
Lucas Giolito
.0009.80
now 2
37

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

If you already own them — trade angle
BuyJared Jones — buy.conf 0.83
Hold · wait & seeLucas Giolito — hold.conf 0.50
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