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Diamondbacks 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Diamondbacks Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 September 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each player and for the team as a whole: Actual and Projected. The Actual lines are just what it says: the actual stats for this season to date; the Projected lines want a little explanation.

The projecting has two steps. The first is simple: for each man, we calculate the ratio of his current-season-to-date Plate Appearances to his career Plate Appearances, then multiply all his career stats by that ratio to get what one might call his “raw” career-performance data pro-rated to his current-year number of Plate Appearances. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career PAs and 250 PAs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had, say, 1215 career Hits, his raw projected Hits number for this season would be 1215 x .05, or 61 (if the calculated number is fractional, as with 60.75, we round it off to the nearest whole number).

That much is simple and, we hope, clear. The second adjustment takes a little explaining. It derives from the fact that—for a team or for an individual man—the number of Plate Appearances that will be had for a given number of Outs made (which is to say “innings played”) depends exactly on the on-base percentage: the higher the on-base percentage, the more PAs the man or team will have in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a team with an abysmal .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they send to the plate will get on safely. The converse of that is that three men in four will make out. (For simplicity’s sake in this elementary example, we ignore outs made on the bases.) So, in an average inning, that team, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a team with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half its batters make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, they would have—again, on average—to send 6 men to the plate. So (as should be intuitively obvious anyway), for a given number of innings, a higher OBP means more PAs.

The consequence of that is that each man’s “raw”stat projections, which were based on his PAs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—PAs would be different (perhaps higher, perhaps lower) from what they are if all the men were performing at their career rates. To correct for that, we calculate each man’s career "outs rate" (all Outs made per plate appearance, which does include outs made on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the team’s total Plate Appearances; we then sum up those outs rates to get a projected team Outs rate, and from that—holding Outs made (which, again, is just innings played) constant—we can reckon the projected team PA total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team PAs to actual PAs (which normally yields a number fairly close to, but not equalling,1.0), giving us the true projected stats for each man and for the team.

(For this season for this team’s batting, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.992)

Incidentally, that last adjustment is the reason that even rookies, whose whole “career” is just the current season, can have “adjusted” lines that differ slightly from their actual data lines, and why the TOP numbers here may differ slightly from those on other pages here.

You can see the overall “win-capability” of the team (its wins projected from these team numbers and the corresponding team pitching numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nolan Arenado, actual: 146 572 510 126 23 1 27 232 50 0 3 8 1 814
Nolan Arenado, projected: 146 567 513 144 30 2 27 259 44 0 6 4 0 898
Luken Baker, actual: 3 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
Luken Baker, projected: 3 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 302
Jorge Barrosa, actual: 97 159 134 27 11 1 2 46 14 8 1 2 0 479
Jorge Barrosa, projected: 97 158 137 24 10 1 2 41 11 6 2 2 0 333
Corbin Carroll, actual: 150 646 559 134 31 16 22 263 72 0 7 8 0 901
Corbin Carroll, projected: 150 641 558 142 29 14 24 272 65 2 6 10 0 951
Adrian Del Castillo, actual: 62 195 179 35 6 0 5 56 13 2 1 0 0 410
Adrian Del Castillo, projected: 62 193 178 42 8 0 6 68 13 1 1 0 0 565
José Fernández, actual: 69 214 197 51 9 0 3 69 11 5 0 1 0 605
José Fernández, projected: 69 212 195 51 9 0 3 68 11 5 0 1 0 602
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Aramis Garcia, actual: 8 19 19 3 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 360
Aramis Garcia, projected: 8 19 18 4 0 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 508
LuJames Groover, actual: 15 54 48 8 2 0 1 13 5 0 0 1 0 306
LuJames Groover, projected: 15 54 48 8 2 0 1 13 5 0 0 1 0 306
Lourdes Gurriel Jr., actual: 51 201 186 39 9 0 2 54 10 0 3 2 0 406
Lourdes Gurriel Jr., projected: 51 199 184 50 10 1 7 82 11 0 2 2 0 766
Max Kepler, actual: 41 145 132 27 7 0 2 40 11 0 2 0 0 390
Max Kepler, projected: 41 144 127 30 7 0 5 54 14 0 1 1 0 720
Jordan Lawlar, actual: 39 124 112 29 4 1 5 50 5 1 0 6 0 864
Jordan Lawlar, projected: 39 123 111 24 6 1 3 39 7 1 1 4 0 611
Tyler Locklear, actual: 15 42 36 10 3 0 1 16 4 0 1 1 0 756
Tyler Locklear, projected: 15 42 37 7 1 0 1 11 3 0 0 1 0 372
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ketel Marte, actual: 135 597 538 134 29 3 22 235 48 0 5 6 0 758
Ketel Marte, projected: 135 592 528 146 31 5 20 247 54 1 5 5 0 906
James McCann, actual: 47 152 142 40 6 0 5 61 6 2 1 1 0 673
James McCann, projected: 47 151 139 34 6 0 4 53 9 1 1 2 0 577
Gabriel Moreno, actual: 125 526 453 139 32 1 15 218 59 0 9 5 0 1136
Gabriel Moreno, projected: 125 522 460 133 26 1 12 197 52 0 7 4 0 863
Lars Nootbaar, actual: 37 128 108 26 6 0 4 44 18 1 1 0 0 754
Lars Nootbaar, projected: 37 127 109 26 5 1 4 44 16 0 1 1 0 797
Geraldo Perdomo, actual: 151 651 539 138 19 7 9 198 90 9 8 5 0 839
Geraldo Perdomo, projected: 151 646 542 138 25 5 10 202 79 12 7 7 0 773
Jesús Sánchez, actual: 5 13 12 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 127
Jesús Sánchez, projected: 5 13 12 3 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 415
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carlos Santana, actual: 8 26 24 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 73
Carlos Santana, projected: 8 26 22 5 1 0 1 9 4 0 0 0 0 774
Pavin Smith, actual: 35 106 94 16 2 0 3 27 11 0 1 0 0 413
Pavin Smith, projected: 35 105 92 22 5 0 3 37 11 0 1 0 0 675
Tim Tawa, actual: 98 326 291 68 12 1 10 112 25 7 3 0 0 572
Tim Tawa, projected: 98 323 288 63 12 1 10 106 26 5 4 1 0 539
Alek Thomas, actual: 28 100 94 17 9 0 2 32 3 1 0 2 0 330
Alek Thomas, projected: 28 99 92 21 4 1 2 33 5 1 1 1 0 511
Tommy Troy, actual: 45 143 129 28 3 1 4 45 13 1 0 0 0 626
Tommy Troy, projected: 45 142 128 28 3 1 4 45 13 1 0 0 0 636
Ildemaro Vargas, actual: 136 477 445 113 19 5 9 169 26 1 2 2 1 629
Ildemaro Vargas, projected: 136 473 440 110 20 3 8 160 24 3 3 3 0 533
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ryan Waldschmidt, actual: 80 282 248 63 15 1 3 89 22 3 3 5 1 643
Ryan Waldschmidt, projected: 80 280 246 62 15 1 3 88 22 3 3 5 1 627
Diamondbacks, Actual: 156 5903 5234 1276 258 38 157 2081 519 41 51 55 3 687
Diamondbacks, Projected: 156 5856 5208 1318 266 38 161 2140 502 42 52 55 1 695


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.398 0.411
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.196 0.197
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.322
Power Factor: 1.631 1.624
OPS: 0.713 0.733
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 687
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 695
Actual Runs Scored: 693

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