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Athletics 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Athletics Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 26 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 0.987)

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: 62 226 198 49 7 0 3 65 16 1 2 8 1 634
Henry Bolte, projected: 62 223 195 48 7 0 3 64 16 1 2 8 1 620
Lawrence Butler, actual: 97 303 262 52 9 1 5 78 38 1 1 1 0 526
Lawrence Butler, projected: 97 299 270 63 13 1 10 109 27 1 1 0 0 655
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: 80 251 223 60 12 1 7 95 22 0 2 4 0 728
Carlos Cortes, projected: 80 248 224 63 14 1 8 103 18 0 3 3 0 744
Zack Gelof, actual: 67 247 227 62 11 1 11 108 14 2 0 4 0 900
Zack Gelof, projected: 67 244 222 52 11 1 9 92 17 1 1 2 0 676
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: 46 166 154 35 6 0 8 65 8 0 2 2 0 641
Jonah Heim, projected: 46 164 150 34 7 0 5 56 12 0 1 1 0 555
Darell Hernaiz, actual: 47 134 118 28 3 0 1 34 13 2 0 1 0 519
Darell Hernaiz, projected: 47 132 117 26 3 0 1 33 12 1 2 1 0 450
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: 16 62 60 25 7 0 1 35 1 0 0 1 0 1447
Joshua Kuroda-Grauer, projected: 16 61 59 25 7 0 1 35 1 0 0 1 0 1411
Nick Kurtz, actual: 94 420 341 90 15 1 21 170 77 0 0 2 0 1199
Nick Kurtz, projected: 94 414 347 97 19 1 26 196 64 0 1 2 0 1258
Shea Langeliers, actual: 93 416 376 99 19 0 23 187 34 0 1 5 0 921
Shea Langeliers, projected: 93 411 374 90 19 1 22 176 30 0 3 3 0 742
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jeff McNeil, actual: 93 318 287 70 13 0 4 95 23 1 3 4 0 511
Jeff McNeil, projected: 93 314 281 79 16 1 7 118 23 1 2 7 0 835
Joey Meneses, actual: 9 25 20 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 1 1 0 190
Joey Meneses, projected: 9 25 23 6 1 0 1 9 2 0 0 0 0 688
Max Muncy, actual: 48 178 157 35 7 2 5 61 14 0 3 4 0 623
Max Muncy, projected: 48 176 160 35 6 1 6 61 11 0 2 3 0 570
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 0 884
Brian Serven, actual: 2 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 335
Brian Serven, projected: 2 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 333
Tyler Soderstrom, actual: 93 385 334 84 22 2 16 158 47 0 1 3 0 915
Tyler Soderstrom, projected: 93 380 338 85 19 1 15 149 37 0 1 4 0 756
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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
Colby Thomas, actual: 51 111 105 21 3 0 4 36 4 1 0 1 0 403
Colby Thomas, projected: 51 110 101 22 4 0 5 39 5 1 1 1 0 521
Donovan Walton, actual: 9 26 17 3 1 1 0 6 8 0 0 1 0 949
Donovan Walton, projected: 9 26 23 5 2 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 536
Tommy White, actual: 8 33 31 10 2 0 0 12 2 0 0 0 0 665
Tommy White, projected: 8 33 31 10 2 0 0 12 2 0 0 0 0 666
Alika Williams, actual: 43 102 96 26 9 0 2 41 3 1 1 1 0 561
Alika Williams, projected: 43 101 92 21 6 1 1 30 5 2 0 1 0 396
Jacob Wilson, actual: 65 278 263 73 10 1 7 106 11 1 1 2 0 761
Jacob Wilson, projected: 65 274 255 75 12 1 6 107 14 1 1 3 0 784
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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 0 455
Athletics, Actual: 105 4020 3571 878 161 10 128 1443 366 14 20 48 1 472
Athletics, Projected: 105 3969 3562 909 182 12 139 1523 323 11 22 44 1 477


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.246 0.255
Slugging Average: 0.404 0.428
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.081
SOs (per PA): 0.226 0.233
On-Base Average: 0.323 0.323
Power Factor: 1.644 1.675
OPS: 0.727 0.751
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 472
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 477
Actual Runs Scored: 468

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