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Cubs 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cubs Projected Batting

Through games of Saturday, 18 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 0.976)

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: 17 18 17 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 198
Kevin Alcántara, projected: 17 18 17 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 283
Miguel Amaya, actual: 53 162 135 31 8 0 3 48 18 1 0 7 1 740
Miguel Amaya, projected: 53 158 139 33 7 0 4 52 11 2 1 5 0 653
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 59 175 156 36 6 0 6 60 17 0 2 0 0 673
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 59 171 151 38 6 1 6 62 18 0 1 0 0 781
Alex Bregman, actual: 96 439 377 89 15 1 9 133 50 0 5 7 0 693
Alex Bregman, projected: 96 428 369 99 23 1 16 174 50 0 3 5 0 927
Michael Busch, actual: 97 433 355 85 17 2 12 142 64 0 4 10 0 924
Michael Busch, projected: 97 422 365 90 18 2 17 165 48 0 3 6 0 875
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: 63 164 144 35 10 0 8 69 19 0 1 0 0 853
Michael Conforto, projected: 63 160 138 34 7 0 7 61 19 0 1 2 0 842
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 98 427 366 104 15 4 21 190 48 1 2 10 0 1180
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 98 417 372 94 18 4 17 171 28 5 5 7 0 809
Justin Dean, actual: 10 6 5 2 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 3229
Justin Dean, projected: 10 6 5 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 715
Ian Happ, actual: 94 405 347 76 17 2 17 148 52 0 1 5 0 797
Ian Happ, projected: 94 395 341 84 19 1 15 152 48 0 2 3 0 840
Nico Hoerner, actual: 96 428 382 93 23 0 4 128 36 0 5 5 0 660
Nico Hoerner, projected: 96 418 379 105 19 2 5 143 29 0 3 6 0 783
Carson Kelly, actual: 71 255 224 60 10 0 6 88 28 0 0 3 0 837
Carson Kelly, projected: 71 249 219 51 9 0 8 84 25 0 2 3 0 649
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 0 379
Pedro Ramírez, actual: 27 67 60 16 4 1 1 25 5 1 1 0 0 710
Pedro Ramírez, projected: 27 65 59 16 4 1 1 24 5 1 1 0 0 696
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: 82 352 309 84 15 0 15 144 37 0 3 3 0 977
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 82 343 302 81 17 2 13 143 36 0 3 2 0 909
Dansby Swanson, actual: 94 363 320 67 11 3 16 132 37 1 4 1 0 774
Dansby Swanson, projected: 94 354 318 79 16 2 11 131 31 1 3 2 0 750
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cubs, Actual: 98 3854 3340 815 157 16 122 1370 425 5 29 54 1 506
Cubs, Projected: 98 3760 3313 842 170 18 124 1423 362 9 29 42 0 486


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.254
Slugging Average: 0.410 0.430
Walks (per PA): 0.110 0.096
SOs (per PA): 0.215 0.211
On-Base Average: 0.336 0.333
Power Factor: 1.681 1.690
OPS: 0.746 0.762
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 506
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 486
Actual Runs Scored: 492

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