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Red Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Red Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 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 0.988)

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: 136 595 520 133 32 4 23 242 62 1 7 3 2 862
Wilyer Abreu, projected: 136 588 521 133 34 2 24 242 57 1 6 2 1 816
Roman Anthony, actual: 33 144 122 31 7 2 1 45 21 0 0 1 0 843
Roman Anthony, projected: 33 142 121 34 8 1 3 52 19 0 0 2 0 1025
Tsung-Che Cheng, actual: 14 44 39 10 1 0 0 11 4 0 1 0 0 434
Tsung-Che Cheng, projected: 14 43 39 9 1 0 0 9 3 0 1 0 0 331
Willson Contreras, actual: 125 517 434 119 21 3 26 224 57 1 3 22 0 1140
Willson Contreras, projected: 125 511 441 114 24 1 21 205 51 1 3 16 0 901
Jarren Duran, actual: 130 541 492 102 14 4 19 181 35 2 7 5 0 569
Jarren Duran, projected: 130 535 486 124 31 8 14 211 38 1 3 6 0 799
Caleb Durbin, actual: 132 503 443 111 22 1 12 171 40 6 4 10 0 689
Caleb Durbin, projected: 132 497 437 111 23 0 11 169 34 4 4 17 0 693
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 0 573
Mickey Gasper, actual: 47 165 140 39 8 1 7 70 20 1 1 3 0 1044
Mickey Gasper, projected: 47 163 138 30 5 1 5 50 19 1 1 4 0 698
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 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jahmai Jones, actual: 23 41 33 15 4 1 3 30 5 0 0 3 0 3895
Jahmai Jones, projected: 23 41 36 8 2 0 1 15 4 0 0 1 0 624
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, actual: 48 134 121 33 4 0 2 43 12 1 0 0 0 684
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, projected: 48 132 122 32 5 1 1 43 7 1 1 2 0 589
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: 70 225 205 46 11 1 4 71 15 0 2 2 1 509
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: 96 318 286 71 23 1 6 114 24 1 4 3 0 624
Andruw Monasterio, projected: 96 314 283 70 18 1 5 104 26 0 2 3 0 600
Carlos Narváez, actual: 62 197 171 32 6 0 3 47 14 5 3 4 0 366
Carlos Narváez, projected: 62 195 173 37 9 0 5 61 16 2 1 2 0 486
Ceddanne Rafaela, actual: 134 566 532 150 32 3 16 236 21 2 3 8 0 755
Ceddanne Rafaela, projected: 134 559 526 136 29 4 15 218 21 2 3 7 0 643
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: 15 59 53 9 1 0 1 13 6 0 0 0 0 392
Adley Rutschman, projected: 15 58 51 13 3 0 2 21 7 0 1 0 0 847
Anthony Seigler, actual: 48 171 148 37 12 1 3 60 18 2 2 1 0 729
Anthony Seigler, projected: 48 169 145 34 9 1 2 51 18 2 2 1 0 603
Nick Sogard, actual: 44 188 158 43 11 1 3 65 25 4 1 0 0 851
Nick Sogard, projected: 44 186 163 44 11 0 1 60 18 2 1 1 0 649
Trevor Story, actual: 44 188 177 40 10 0 3 59 8 0 2 1 0 494
Trevor Story, projected: 44 186 169 44 10 1 8 82 14 0 1 2 0 878
Eli White, actual: 20 35 33 8 1 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 523
Eli White, projected: 20 35 32 7 1 0 1 11 2 0 0 0 0 509
Connor Wong, actual: 69 218 190 46 11 0 4 69 17 4 1 6 0 564
Connor Wong, projected: 69 215 195 48 11 1 4 73 14 2 1 4 0 584
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: 87 293 267 75 16 1 7 112 19 0 2 5 0 824
Red Sox, Actual: 139 5275 4666 1165 253 24 142 1892 447 31 46 82 3 627
Red Sox, Projected: 139 5212 4663 1177 266 25 136 1904 409 19 37 79 2 610


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.250 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.405 0.408
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.213 0.220
On-Base Average: 0.323 0.321
Power Factor: 1.624 1.618
OPS: 0.729 0.729
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 627
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 610
Actual Runs Scored: 624

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