Following his extended break/trip to Triple-A around the All-Star break in mid-July, DJ Herz quietly put together a sustained stretch of solid starts, with a 2.76 ERA, 3.58 FIP, and over the last 10 turns and 49 innings pitched, a combined .181/.274/.299 line against.
“He’s been really good,” Davey Martinez told reporters after Herz, 23, held Miami to a run on four hits and one walk in five innings last week in the nation’s capital.
“When we first saw him, he was all over the map,” Martinez said of the southpaw acquired from Chicago’s Cubs in the Jeimer Candelario trade at the deadline last season.