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Red Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Red Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 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
Wilyer Abreu, actual: 157 681 597 148 38 4 24 266 71 1 7 3 2 808
Wilyer Abreu, projected: 157 676 599 151 39 2 26 274 66 1 6 2 1 785
Roman Anthony, actual: 55 242 212 52 11 3 5 84 29 0 0 1 0 762
Roman Anthony, projected: 55 240 207 56 13 2 6 89 30 0 0 3 0 945
Tsung-Che Cheng, actual: 14 44 39 10 1 0 0 11 4 0 1 0 0 434
Tsung-Che Cheng, projected: 14 44 39 9 1 0 0 9 3 0 1 0 0 322
Willson Contreras, actual: 130 535 448 123 21 3 27 231 59 1 3 24 0 1164
Willson Contreras, projected: 130 531 458 119 25 2 22 213 53 1 3 17 0 918
Jarren Duran, actual: 151 608 551 114 15 5 20 199 41 3 7 6 0 563
Jarren Duran, projected: 151 603 548 139 34 9 15 237 43 1 4 7 0 790
Caleb Durbin, actual: 153 586 508 126 25 1 13 192 51 7 4 15 1 715
Caleb Durbin, projected: 153 582 507 128 27 1 13 194 43 5 4 21 1 715
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nate Eaton, actual: 24 60 50 8 2 0 1 13 8 0 0 2 0 512
Nate Eaton, projected: 24 60 53 12 2 1 1 16 5 0 1 1 0 641
Mickey Gasper, actual: 67 225 191 48 9 1 10 89 27 1 1 5 0 931
Mickey Gasper, projected: 67 223 190 39 6 1 7 69 26 1 1 6 0 654
Romy González, actual: 19 73 65 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 2 0 330
Romy González, projected: 19 72 67 18 4 1 2 28 3 0 1 1 0 708
Brett Harris, actual: 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Brett Harris, projected: 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jahmai Jones, actual: 37 76 65 20 4 1 4 38 7 0 0 4 0 1373
Jahmai Jones, projected: 37 75 67 15 4 0 2 27 7 0 0 2 0 626
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, actual: 66 183 161 39 5 0 2 50 19 3 0 0 0 563
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, projected: 66 182 167 44 7 1 2 58 10 1 1 2 0 592
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Marcelo Mayer, actual: 70 228 205 45 10 0 3 64 16 0 3 3 1 510
Marcelo Mayer, projected: 70 226 206 45 11 1 4 69 15 0 2 2 1 486
Curtis Mead, actual: 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 875
Curtis Mead, projected: 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andruw Monasterio, actual: 107 347 313 73 23 1 6 116 26 1 4 3 0 542
Andruw Monasterio, projected: 107 344 310 76 19 1 5 111 28 0 2 3 0 576
Carlos Narváez, actual: 62 197 171 32 6 0 3 47 14 5 3 4 0 366
Carlos Narváez, projected: 62 195 174 37 9 0 5 60 15 2 1 2 0 480
Ceddanne Rafaela, actual: 138 576 541 153 32 3 16 239 22 2 3 8 0 762
Ceddanne Rafaela, projected: 138 572 537 139 30 4 15 222 22 2 3 8 0 646
Jake Rogers, actual: 3 9 6 3 2 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 0 3952
Jake Rogers, projected: 3 9 8 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 317
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Adley Rutschman, actual: 32 126 117 26 7 0 5 48 9 0 0 0 0 622
Adley Rutschman, projected: 32 125 109 28 6 0 4 45 14 0 1 1 0 796
Anthony Seigler, actual: 49 173 150 37 12 1 3 60 18 2 2 1 0 709
Anthony Seigler, projected: 49 172 148 34 9 1 2 51 18 2 2 1 0 577
Nick Sogard, actual: 66 277 239 61 14 1 5 92 31 5 1 1 0 729
Nick Sogard, projected: 66 275 243 63 15 1 3 88 25 3 2 2 0 654
Trevor Story, actual: 64 266 251 59 14 0 5 88 11 0 2 2 0 527
Trevor Story, projected: 64 264 240 63 15 2 12 116 20 0 1 3 0 892
Eli White, actual: 27 60 58 16 3 0 1 22 2 0 0 0 0 689
Eli White, projected: 27 60 55 12 2 0 2 19 4 0 0 1 0 578
Connor Wong, actual: 77 238 210 49 12 0 4 73 17 4 1 6 0 502
Connor Wong, projected: 77 236 214 52 12 1 5 80 15 2 1 4 0 589
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Masataka Yoshida, actual: 87 297 263 72 16 1 5 105 28 0 3 3 0 874
Masataka Yoshida, projected: 87 295 268 75 16 1 7 113 19 0 2 5 0 830
Red Sox, Actual: 162 6112 5414 1326 285 26 163 2152 517 36 46 95 4 707
Red Sox, Projected: 162 6066 5419 1356 306 32 160 2193 485 21 39 94 3 710


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.245 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.397 0.405
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.080
SOs (per PA): 0.217 0.222
On-Base Average: 0.319 0.321
Power Factor: 1.623 1.617
OPS: 0.717 0.725
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 707
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 710
Actual Runs Scored: 689

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