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Cubs 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cubs 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 0.974)

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: 24 28 25 6 0 0 1 9 2 0 1 0 0 504
Kevin Alcántara, projected: 24 27 25 6 0 0 1 8 2 0 1 0 0 567
Miguel Amaya, actual: 83 254 215 51 12 0 6 81 23 3 1 11 1 705
Miguel Amaya, projected: 83 247 217 51 11 1 6 83 18 3 2 8 0 656
Gabriel Arias, actual: 7 10 8 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 1456
Gabriel Arias, projected: 7 10 9 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 280
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 59 175 156 36 6 0 6 60 17 0 2 0 0 673
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 59 170 153 35 5 0 4 54 16 0 2 0 0 551
Alex Bregman, actual: 155 702 608 161 33 2 28 282 76 0 6 12 0 922
Alex Bregman, projected: 155 684 590 160 37 2 27 282 80 0 5 9 0 951
Michael Busch, actual: 160 710 600 145 27 2 20 236 92 0 5 13 0 816
Michael Busch, projected: 160 692 600 148 29 3 27 266 78 0 4 10 0 847
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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
Michael Conforto, actual: 113 314 271 65 17 0 15 127 35 0 4 4 0 859
Michael Conforto, projected: 113 306 264 64 14 0 13 117 35 0 2 5 0 816
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 162 726 626 175 31 8 45 357 83 1 4 12 0 1250
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 162 707 629 161 32 7 34 308 53 7 7 11 0 884
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: 156 636 546 119 28 3 24 225 81 1 1 7 0 746
Ian Happ, projected: 156 620 535 130 30 2 24 237 76 1 3 5 0 833
Nico Hoerner, actual: 159 689 628 165 29 1 8 220 43 0 8 10 0 687
Nico Hoerner, projected: 159 671 611 170 30 3 8 231 44 0 5 10 0 770
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carson Kelly, actual: 120 425 380 98 15 0 10 143 40 0 0 5 0 700
Carson Kelly, projected: 120 414 366 86 15 0 13 140 40 0 3 5 0 645
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
B.J. Murray, actual: 7 11 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22
B.J. Murray, projected: 7 11 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22
Pedro Ramírez, actual: 80 266 241 63 12 2 6 97 20 1 2 2 0 753
Pedro Ramírez, projected: 80 259 235 61 12 2 6 94 19 1 2 2 0 733
Matt Shaw, actual: 77 202 173 41 9 3 5 71 21 3 2 3 0 733
Matt Shaw, projected: 77 197 174 40 9 2 6 70 18 1 2 2 0 688
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Seiya Suzuki, actual: 143 634 545 147 31 1 26 258 81 0 3 5 0 1017
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 143 618 541 145 30 4 24 256 67 0 5 4 0 924
Dansby Swanson, actual: 126 486 428 91 16 3 19 170 51 1 4 2 0 747
Dansby Swanson, projected: 126 473 425 105 21 2 15 175 42 1 3 2 0 741
Tyrone Taylor, actual: 30 82 74 26 8 0 1 37 5 0 2 1 0 1271
Tyrone Taylor, projected: 30 80 73 18 5 1 3 31 4 0 0 1 0 661
James Triantos, actual: 7 9 8 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 161
James Triantos, projected: 7 9 8 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 161
Cubs, Actual: 162 6382 5564 1398 274 26 220 2384 674 10 46 87 1 860
Cubs, Projected: 162 6218 5485 1389 280 30 211 2364 596 14 46 74 0 800


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.251 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.428 0.431
Walks (per PA): 0.106 0.096
SOs (per PA): 0.211 0.213
On-Base Average: 0.339 0.332
Power Factor: 1.705 1.702
OPS: 0.767 0.763
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 860
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 800
Actual Runs Scored: 850

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