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Orioles 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Orioles Projected Batting

Through games of Saturday, 18 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 0.989)

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
Blaze Alexander, actual: 82 246 221 69 12 2 4 97 16 2 1 4 2 932
Blaze Alexander, projected: 82 243 215 57 11 1 5 84 18 2 1 6 1 731
Pete Alonso, actual: 99 428 367 91 17 0 21 171 53 0 4 4 0 881
Pete Alonso, projected: 99 423 369 93 18 1 25 189 42 0 3 9 0 929
Samuel Basallo, actual: 85 310 281 68 9 1 16 127 26 0 2 1 0 767
Samuel Basallo, projected: 85 307 279 62 11 1 14 117 23 0 1 3 0 617
Dylan Beavers, actual: 45 154 135 32 10 0 2 48 16 1 1 1 0 595
Dylan Beavers, projected: 45 152 128 30 8 1 3 48 22 1 1 1 0 744
Colton Cowser, actual: 86 238 208 44 3 0 8 71 26 1 2 1 0 594
Colton Cowser, projected: 86 235 209 45 8 1 9 82 22 0 1 3 0 632
Christian Encarnacion-Strand, actual: 1 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
Christian Encarnacion-Strand, projected: 1 5 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 385
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Maverick Handley, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maverick Handley, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gunnar Henderson, actual: 98 448 406 89 16 2 17 160 34 0 2 6 0 633
Gunnar Henderson, projected: 98 443 394 103 20 4 18 184 42 0 2 4 0 896
Jackson Holliday, actual: 47 147 123 26 3 1 5 46 22 0 2 0 0 764
Jackson Holliday, projected: 47 145 130 30 4 1 4 47 13 0 1 1 0 667
Sam Huff, actual: 9 23 23 4 2 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 171
Sam Huff, projected: 9 23 21 5 1 0 1 9 2 0 0 0 0 626
Jeremiah Jackson, actual: 72 215 206 52 10 0 7 83 5 1 2 1 0 532
Jeremiah Jackson, projected: 72 213 201 53 11 1 6 85 9 1 1 2 0 584
Coby Mayo, actual: 76 251 228 44 9 0 12 89 19 0 1 3 0 582
Coby Mayo, projected: 76 248 223 44 9 0 10 82 21 0 0 3 0 554
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ryan Mountcastle, actual: 8 15 14 4 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 688
Ryan Mountcastle, projected: 8 15 14 4 1 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 968
Tyler O'Neill, actual: 60 177 156 31 6 0 6 55 19 0 0 2 0 592
Tyler O'Neill, projected: 60 175 155 37 7 0 9 71 16 0 1 2 0 807
Johnathan Rodríguez, actual: 5 11 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 226
Johnathan Rodríguez, projected: 5 11 9 2 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 401
Adley Rutschman, actual: 67 284 247 62 19 1 8 107 30 0 5 2 0 777
Adley Rutschman, projected: 67 281 244 62 14 1 8 101 33 0 3 1 0 802
Michael Siani, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michael Siani, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leody Taveras, actual: 84 292 255 61 10 5 4 93 28 7 1 1 0 611
Leody Taveras, projected: 84 289 264 62 12 2 6 96 20 2 2 1 0 578
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Chadwick Tromp, actual: 1 3 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6142
Chadwick Tromp, projected: 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taylor Ward, actual: 98 448 364 92 19 0 7 132 77 0 3 4 0 869
Taylor Ward, projected: 98 443 386 95 19 1 16 166 48 0 4 5 0 810
Weston Wilson, actual: 19 46 39 9 1 0 1 13 6 0 0 1 0 730
Weston Wilson, projected: 19 45 40 9 2 0 2 16 5 0 0 0 0 738
Orioles, Actual: 99 3743 3290 781 147 12 118 1306 381 12 27 31 2 436
Orioles, Projected: 99 3701 3291 795 156 15 137 1389 339 6 21 41 1 447


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.242
Slugging Average: 0.397 0.422
Walks (per PA): 0.102 0.092
SOs (per PA): 0.243 0.251
On-Base Average: 0.320 0.318
Power Factor: 1.672 1.747
OPS: 0.717 0.740
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 436
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 447
Actual Runs Scored: 454

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