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Athletics 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Athletics Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 1 July 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 0.985)

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
Henry Bolte, actual: 45 170 147 43 6 0 2 55 14 0 2 6 1 888
Henry Bolte, projected: 45 167 145 42 6 0 2 54 14 0 2 6 1 891
Lawrence Butler, actual: 79 240 214 42 7 0 5 64 26 0 0 0 0 483
Lawrence Butler, projected: 79 236 215 50 11 1 8 88 20 0 1 0 0 650
Denzel Clarke, actual: 22 60 53 9 1 0 0 10 4 3 0 0 0 175
Denzel Clarke, projected: 22 59 54 12 2 1 1 18 3 1 0 1 0 460
Carlos Cortes, actual: 66 209 184 50 9 1 6 79 21 0 1 3 0 785
Carlos Cortes, projected: 66 206 186 53 11 1 7 87 16 0 2 2 0 796
Zack Gelof, actual: 62 228 209 59 10 1 11 104 14 2 0 3 0 973
Zack Gelof, projected: 62 225 204 48 10 1 8 85 16 1 1 2 0 675
Brett Harris, actual: 5 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 253
Brett Harris, projected: 5 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 481
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jonah Heim, actual: 31 104 95 24 5 0 7 50 8 0 1 0 0 961
Jonah Heim, projected: 31 102 94 21 4 0 3 36 7 0 1 0 0 560
Darell Hernaiz, actual: 47 134 118 28 3 0 1 34 13 2 0 1 0 519
Darell Hernaiz, projected: 47 132 116 26 3 0 1 33 12 1 2 1 0 455
Andy Ibáñez, actual: 11 18 17 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 205
Andy Ibáñez, projected: 11 18 16 4 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 426
Joshua Kuroda-Grauer, actual: 3 11 11 5 2 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1999
Joshua Kuroda-Grauer, projected: 3 11 11 5 2 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1993
Nick Kurtz, actual: 86 389 312 87 15 1 19 161 75 0 0 2 0 1302
Nick Kurtz, projected: 86 383 319 91 18 1 24 184 60 0 1 2 0 1298
Shea Langeliers, actual: 79 361 328 87 16 0 20 163 28 0 1 4 0 906
Shea Langeliers, projected: 79 356 324 78 16 1 19 152 26 0 3 3 0 741
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jeff McNeil, actual: 79 277 249 57 10 0 3 76 21 1 2 4 0 462
Jeff McNeil, projected: 79 273 245 68 14 1 6 103 20 1 2 6 0 841
Joey Meneses, actual: 7 18 14 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 0 309
Joey Meneses, projected: 7 18 16 4 1 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 426
Max Muncy, actual: 44 167 149 35 7 2 5 61 11 0 3 4 0 650
Max Muncy, projected: 44 164 151 34 6 1 6 59 9 0 2 3 0 607
Brent Rooker, actual: 48 203 180 36 4 0 10 70 19 0 2 2 0 639
Brent Rooker, projected: 48 200 178 45 9 1 10 86 18 0 1 3 0 890
Tyler Soderstrom, actual: 80 335 289 70 20 2 13 133 43 0 1 2 0 878
Tyler Soderstrom, projected: 80 330 293 73 16 1 13 128 32 0 1 3 0 747
Michael Stefanic, actual: 2 5 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1166
Michael Stefanic, projected: 2 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Colby Thomas, actual: 40 89 84 20 3 0 4 35 4 1 0 0 0 625
Colby Thomas, projected: 40 88 81 19 3 0 4 34 4 1 1 0 0 598
Alika Williams, actual: 30 73 69 21 6 0 2 33 3 1 0 0 0 721
Alika Williams, projected: 30 72 66 15 4 1 1 21 4 2 0 1 0 431
Jacob Wilson, actual: 50 214 202 56 10 0 4 78 10 1 1 0 0 693
Jacob Wilson, projected: 50 211 196 58 10 1 4 81 11 1 1 2 0 772
Austin Wynns, actual: 14 43 39 3 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 67
Austin Wynns, projected: 14 42 39 9 2 0 1 13 2 1 0 0 0 469
Athletics, Actual: 87 3354 2972 738 134 7 112 1222 322 12 15 32 1 407
Athletics, Projected: 87 3304 2958 757 149 12 118 1284 277 9 21 35 1 409


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.248 0.256
Slugging Average: 0.411 0.434
Walks (per PA): 0.096 0.084
SOs (per PA): 0.225 0.238
On-Base Average: 0.327 0.325
Power Factor: 1.656 1.696
OPS: 0.738 0.759
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 407
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 409
Actual Runs Scored: 401

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