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Cubs 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cubs Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 0.972)

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: 20 23 21 5 0 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 502
Kevin Alcántara, projected: 20 22 21 5 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 234
Miguel Amaya, actual: 64 194 165 40 9 0 4 61 19 1 0 8 1 767
Miguel Amaya, projected: 64 189 166 40 8 0 5 63 13 2 1 6 0 654
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 59 175 156 36 6 0 6 60 17 0 2 0 0 673
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 59 170 151 36 5 1 5 57 18 0 1 0 0 684
Alex Bregman, actual: 118 542 469 120 23 1 16 193 60 0 5 8 0 818
Alex Bregman, projected: 118 527 454 123 28 2 20 215 62 0 4 7 0 943
Michael Busch, actual: 120 541 458 112 20 2 14 178 68 0 4 11 0 820
Michael Busch, projected: 120 526 458 113 22 3 21 204 58 0 3 7 0 857
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: 79 209 180 42 12 0 9 81 25 0 3 1 0 818
Michael Conforto, projected: 79 203 175 43 9 0 8 78 24 0 1 3 0 808
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 121 538 458 130 24 7 27 249 65 1 3 11 0 1241
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 121 523 465 118 24 6 22 219 38 6 6 8 0 839
Justin Dean, actual: 17 10 8 3 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 2837
Justin Dean, projected: 17 10 8 2 0 1 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 1307
Ian Happ, actual: 117 498 427 93 22 2 20 179 64 0 1 6 0 765
Ian Happ, projected: 117 484 418 102 23 2 19 186 59 0 3 4 0 845
Nico Hoerner, actual: 119 525 474 124 26 1 7 173 39 0 6 6 0 729
Nico Hoerner, projected: 119 510 464 129 23 2 6 177 35 0 4 8 0 781
Carson Kelly, actual: 90 321 284 74 11 0 7 106 34 0 0 3 0 753
Carson Kelly, projected: 90 312 275 64 12 0 10 105 31 0 2 3 0 643
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: 46 129 116 35 9 1 2 52 11 1 1 0 0 996
Pedro Ramírez, projected: 46 125 113 34 9 1 2 51 11 1 1 0 0 955
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: 103 453 392 107 21 0 20 188 54 0 3 4 0 1035
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 103 440 387 104 21 3 17 183 47 0 4 3 0 929
Dansby Swanson, actual: 116 452 399 86 16 3 18 162 46 1 4 2 0 761
Dansby Swanson, projected: 116 439 395 98 19 2 14 163 39 1 3 2 0 743
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tyrone Taylor, actual: 6 17 15 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 376
Tyrone Taylor, projected: 6 17 15 4 1 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 704
James Triantos, actual: 5 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
James Triantos, projected: 5 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
Cubs, Actual: 121 4792 4170 1044 205 20 155 1754 519 5 33 64 1 645
Cubs, Projected: 121 4658 4109 1049 211 24 154 1772 451 10 34 52 0 603


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.250 0.255
Slugging Average: 0.421 0.431
Walks (per PA): 0.108 0.097
SOs (per PA): 0.217 0.213
On-Base Average: 0.340 0.334
Power Factor: 1.680 1.689
OPS: 0.761 0.765
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 645
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 603
Actual Runs Scored: 634

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