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Cubs 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cubs 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 0.971)

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: 74 223 190 44 9 0 5 68 22 1 0 9 1 684
Miguel Amaya, projected: 74 217 191 45 9 1 6 72 16 2 1 6 0 652
Gabriel Arias, actual: 4 7 6 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1125
Gabriel Arias, projected: 4 7 6 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 190
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 59 175 156 36 6 0 6 60 17 0 2 0 0 673
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 59 170 153 34 5 0 4 53 16 0 1 0 0 527
Alex Bregman, actual: 136 624 543 140 27 1 23 238 66 0 6 9 0 852
Alex Bregman, projected: 136 606 523 142 33 2 24 249 71 0 5 8 0 956
Michael Busch, actual: 137 617 523 125 25 2 17 205 78 0 4 12 0 808
Michael Busch, projected: 137 599 521 128 26 3 24 232 66 0 4 8 0 856
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: 93 246 213 50 13 0 13 102 28 0 3 2 0 877
Michael Conforto, projected: 93 239 206 50 11 0 10 92 28 0 2 4 0 826
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 139 622 536 150 27 7 38 305 71 1 3 11 0 1235
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 139 604 538 137 27 6 28 260 44 6 6 9 0 852
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: 134 560 482 106 24 2 23 203 69 1 1 7 0 758
Ian Happ, projected: 134 544 470 115 26 2 21 209 66 1 3 4 0 836
Nico Hoerner, actual: 136 596 540 142 27 1 8 195 41 0 8 7 0 740
Nico Hoerner, projected: 136 579 527 147 26 3 7 200 39 0 4 9 0 787
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carson Kelly, actual: 102 369 328 86 13 0 10 129 38 0 0 3 0 769
Carson Kelly, projected: 102 358 316 74 13 0 11 122 36 0 2 4 0 638
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: 1 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 335
B.J. Murray, projected: 1 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 338
Pedro Ramírez, actual: 61 191 172 49 10 2 4 75 16 1 1 1 0 898
Pedro Ramírez, projected: 61 185 167 48 10 2 4 73 16 1 1 1 0 895
Matt Shaw, actual: 61 160 140 35 8 2 5 62 15 1 1 3 0 828
Matt Shaw, projected: 61 155 139 32 8 1 5 56 14 0 1 1 0 699
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Seiya Suzuki, actual: 121 537 463 128 28 0 24 228 67 0 3 4 0 1087
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 121 521 457 124 26 3 21 218 56 0 5 3 0 945
Dansby Swanson, actual: 119 458 403 87 16 3 18 163 48 1 4 2 0 770
Dansby Swanson, projected: 119 445 399 99 20 2 14 165 39 1 3 2 0 743
Tyrone Taylor, actual: 19 52 46 19 4 0 1 26 4 0 1 1 0 2049
Tyrone Taylor, projected: 19 50 46 11 3 0 2 20 3 0 0 1 0 632
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: 139 5501 4799 1211 237 21 196 2078 586 6 38 71 1 757
Cubs, Projected: 139 5342 4715 1200 243 26 182 2040 515 11 39 60 0 693


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.252 0.255
Slugging Average: 0.433 0.433
Walks (per PA): 0.107 0.096
SOs (per PA): 0.214 0.213
On-Base Average: 0.340 0.333
Power Factor: 1.716 1.700
OPS: 0.773 0.766
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 757
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 693
Actual Runs Scored: 746

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