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Diamondbacks 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Diamondbacks Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 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 0.993)

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: 130 508 454 107 21 1 21 193 43 0 3 7 1 729
Nolan Arenado, projected: 130 505 457 128 27 2 24 229 39 0 5 3 0 890
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: 96 159 134 27 11 1 2 46 14 8 1 2 0 479
Jorge Barrosa, projected: 96 158 138 25 10 1 2 42 10 6 2 2 0 329
Corbin Carroll, actual: 136 590 508 123 28 16 19 240 69 0 5 8 0 934
Corbin Carroll, projected: 136 586 510 130 26 13 22 249 60 2 5 9 0 951
Adrian Del Castillo, actual: 59 192 176 35 6 0 5 56 13 2 1 0 0 424
Adrian Del Castillo, projected: 59 191 175 41 8 0 6 67 13 1 1 0 0 570
José Fernández, actual: 65 207 191 50 9 0 3 68 11 4 0 1 0 613
José Fernández, projected: 65 206 190 50 9 0 3 68 11 4 0 1 0 606
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: 47 189 174 36 8 0 2 50 10 0 3 2 0 418
Lourdes Gurriel Jr., projected: 47 188 174 47 10 1 7 77 10 0 2 2 0 771
Max Kepler, actual: 39 139 126 27 7 0 2 40 11 0 2 0 0 430
Max Kepler, projected: 39 138 122 29 7 0 5 52 13 0 1 1 0 742
Jordan Lawlar, actual: 24 82 73 21 2 0 4 35 4 1 0 4 0 1148
Jordan Lawlar, projected: 24 81 73 16 4 0 2 25 5 0 0 3 0 623
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: 120 527 475 119 23 3 21 211 42 0 4 6 0 789
Ketel Marte, projected: 120 523 467 130 27 4 18 219 48 1 4 4 0 913
James McCann, actual: 42 138 129 38 6 0 4 56 6 2 0 1 0 705
James McCann, projected: 42 137 126 31 5 0 4 48 8 0 1 2 0 592
Gabriel Moreno, actual: 109 457 393 118 29 1 11 182 51 0 9 4 0 1057
Gabriel Moreno, projected: 109 454 400 115 23 1 10 169 45 0 6 3 0 843
Lars Nootbaar, actual: 21 74 63 14 4 0 3 27 11 0 0 0 0 796
Lars Nootbaar, projected: 21 73 63 15 3 0 2 25 10 0 1 0 0 759
Geraldo Perdomo, actual: 135 584 487 123 18 6 9 180 81 6 6 4 0 820
Geraldo Perdomo, projected: 135 580 488 124 22 4 9 182 70 10 6 6 0 765
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pavin Smith, actual: 28 89 78 11 1 0 1 15 10 0 1 0 0 283
Pavin Smith, projected: 28 88 78 19 4 0 2 31 10 0 1 0 0 656
Tim Tawa, actual: 83 273 243 59 11 0 9 97 21 6 3 0 0 624
Tim Tawa, projected: 83 271 241 54 10 0 9 90 22 4 3 1 0 567
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: 39 134 121 27 3 1 4 44 13 0 0 0 0 695
Tommy Troy, projected: 39 133 120 27 3 1 4 44 13 0 0 0 0 707
Ildemaro Vargas, actual: 124 440 411 104 18 5 9 159 23 1 2 2 1 632
Ildemaro Vargas, projected: 124 437 406 101 19 3 7 148 22 3 3 2 0 527
Ryan Waldschmidt, actual: 72 256 227 62 15 1 3 88 19 2 3 4 1 731
Ryan Waldschmidt, projected: 72 254 225 62 15 1 3 87 19 2 3 4 1 729
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Diamondbacks, Actual: 140 5284 4689 1142 235 35 137 1858 466 33 44 49 3 615
Diamondbacks, Projected: 140 5248 4674 1190 240 32 145 1925 447 34 45 46 1 626


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.255
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.412
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.192 0.196
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.323
Power Factor: 1.627 1.618
OPS: 0.712 0.735
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 615
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 626
Actual Runs Scored: 627

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