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Red Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Red Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 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 0.996)

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: 99 429 379 99 21 3 15 171 41 1 5 2 1 828
Wilyer Abreu, projected: 99 427 381 98 24 2 17 175 40 1 4 2 0 805
Roman Anthony, actual: 30 130 109 25 5 1 1 35 20 0 0 1 0 733
Roman Anthony, projected: 30 130 109 30 7 1 3 46 18 0 0 2 0 1006
Tsung-Che Cheng, actual: 14 44 39 10 1 0 0 11 4 0 1 0 0 434
Tsung-Che Cheng, projected: 14 44 40 9 1 0 0 9 3 0 1 0 0 322
Willson Contreras, actual: 94 388 331 97 18 2 22 185 37 0 3 17 0 1276
Willson Contreras, projected: 94 387 334 87 19 1 16 156 38 0 2 12 0 906
Jarren Duran, actual: 94 403 363 69 10 3 13 124 28 1 7 4 0 523
Jarren Duran, projected: 94 401 364 93 24 6 10 158 29 0 3 5 0 811
Caleb Durbin, actual: 94 346 312 74 18 1 10 124 23 3 2 6 0 619
Caleb Durbin, projected: 94 345 306 76 17 0 8 120 21 2 2 12 0 654
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nate Eaton, actual: 14 39 32 4 2 0 1 9 5 0 0 2 0 512
Nate Eaton, projected: 14 39 34 8 1 0 0 11 3 0 1 1 0 553
Mickey Gasper, actual: 34 119 107 26 5 1 0 33 9 1 1 1 0 513
Mickey Gasper, projected: 34 119 104 19 3 0 1 26 11 1 1 2 0 375
Romy González, actual: 15 59 53 10 2 1 1 17 4 0 0 2 0 428
Romy González, projected: 15 59 55 14 3 1 1 23 3 0 1 0 0 641
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: 4 7 6 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 2056
Jahmai Jones, projected: 4 7 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 317
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, actual: 47 132 119 33 4 0 2 43 12 1 0 0 0 709
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, projected: 47 132 121 32 5 1 1 42 7 1 1 2 0 595
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: 70 227 207 46 11 1 4 72 15 0 2 2 1 499
Andruw Monasterio, actual: 61 180 166 41 15 1 5 73 13 1 0 0 0 640
Andruw Monasterio, projected: 61 179 162 40 10 0 3 60 15 0 0 1 0 586
Carlos Narváez, actual: 56 182 162 32 6 0 3 47 12 3 2 3 0 388
Carlos Narváez, projected: 56 181 163 37 9 0 5 62 15 1 1 1 0 537
Ceddanne Rafaela, actual: 97 397 371 104 25 3 9 162 18 2 0 6 0 769
Ceddanne Rafaela, projected: 97 396 371 95 21 3 10 152 16 2 1 5 0 626
Anthony Seigler, actual: 27 106 94 23 7 0 2 36 9 1 1 1 0 712
Anthony Seigler, projected: 27 106 92 21 5 0 1 29 10 1 1 1 0 520
Nick Sogard, actual: 12 41 35 9 2 1 0 13 5 1 0 0 0 648
Nick Sogard, projected: 12 41 37 10 2 0 0 13 3 0 0 1 0 516
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Trevor Story, actual: 41 176 165 34 7 0 3 50 8 0 2 1 0 430
Trevor Story, projected: 41 175 159 42 10 1 8 77 14 0 1 2 0 891
Connor Wong, actual: 47 146 122 33 8 0 1 44 15 4 1 4 0 701
Connor Wong, projected: 47 145 131 33 8 0 3 49 10 1 1 2 0 619
Masataka Yoshida, actual: 67 222 198 53 11 1 4 78 20 0 1 3 0 796
Masataka Yoshida, projected: 67 221 202 56 12 1 5 85 14 0 1 4 0 801
Red Sox, Actual: 101 3777 3370 823 177 18 96 1324 300 19 29 57 2 427
Red Sox, Projected: 101 3764 3381 847 192 18 96 1368 286 10 24 57 1 431


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.251
Slugging Average: 0.393 0.405
Walks (per PA): 0.079 0.076
SOs (per PA): 0.218 0.224
On-Base Average: 0.314 0.318
Power Factor: 1.609 1.615
OPS: 0.707 0.722
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 427
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 431
Actual Runs Scored: 426

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