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Cubs 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cubs 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 0.973)

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
Kevin Alcántara, actual: 19 21 20 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 136
Kevin Alcántara, projected: 19 20 19 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 204
Miguel Amaya, actual: 54 165 138 32 8 0 3 49 18 1 0 7 1 740
Miguel Amaya, projected: 54 161 141 33 7 0 4 53 12 2 1 5 0 636
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 59 175 156 36 6 0 6 60 17 0 2 0 0 673
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 59 170 151 37 6 1 6 61 18 0 1 0 0 773
Alex Bregman, actual: 100 458 394 94 15 1 10 141 51 0 5 8 0 708
Alex Bregman, projected: 100 446 384 104 24 1 17 181 52 0 4 6 0 941
Michael Busch, actual: 101 452 373 91 17 2 13 151 65 0 4 10 0 926
Michael Busch, projected: 101 440 381 94 19 2 18 173 50 0 3 6 0 877
Dylan Carlson, actual: 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dylan Carlson, projected: 3 4 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 335
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Michael Conforto, actual: 67 172 151 36 10 0 9 73 20 0 1 0 0 852
Michael Conforto, projected: 67 167 144 35 8 0 7 64 19 0 1 3 0 812
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 102 445 379 107 16 5 21 196 52 1 2 11 0 1202
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 102 433 386 97 19 4 18 177 30 5 5 7 0 814
Justin Dean, actual: 12 8 6 2 0 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2641
Justin Dean, projected: 12 8 6 2 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 1195
Ian Happ, actual: 98 423 360 80 18 2 18 156 56 0 1 6 0 825
Ian Happ, projected: 98 412 355 87 20 2 16 158 50 0 2 3 0 848
Nico Hoerner, actual: 100 447 401 98 23 1 4 135 36 0 5 5 0 655
Nico Hoerner, projected: 100 435 395 110 20 2 5 149 30 0 3 7 0 782
Carson Kelly, actual: 75 268 234 62 10 0 6 90 31 0 0 3 0 831
Carson Kelly, projected: 75 261 230 54 10 0 8 88 26 0 2 3 0 650
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Scott Kingery, actual: 8 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 565
Scott Kingery, projected: 8 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 336
Nicky Lopez, actual: 4 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nicky Lopez, projected: 4 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 507
Pedro Ramírez, actual: 30 77 70 20 6 1 1 31 5 1 1 0 0 781
Pedro Ramírez, projected: 30 75 68 19 6 1 1 30 5 1 1 0 0 743
Matt Shaw, actual: 56 147 130 32 6 2 4 54 12 1 1 3 0 753
Matt Shaw, projected: 56 143 128 30 7 1 4 51 12 0 1 1 0 671
Seiya Suzuki, actual: 86 371 322 87 16 0 17 154 43 0 3 3 0 1010
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 86 361 317 85 17 2 14 150 38 0 3 2 0 905
Dansby Swanson, actual: 98 379 334 71 12 3 16 137 39 1 4 1 0 780
Dansby Swanson, projected: 98 369 331 82 16 2 12 137 32 1 3 2 0 753
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cubs, Actual: 102 4021 3481 853 163 18 128 1436 448 5 29 57 1 533
Cubs, Projected: 102 3914 3447 876 179 19 130 1482 377 9 30 45 0 506


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.245 0.254
Slugging Average: 0.413 0.430
Walks (per PA): 0.111 0.096
SOs (per PA): 0.216 0.212
On-Base Average: 0.338 0.333
Power Factor: 1.683 1.692
OPS: 0.751 0.763
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 533
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 506
Actual Runs Scored: 520

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