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Cubs 2025 Projected Batting Performance


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2025 Cubs Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 28 September 2025.
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 0.993)

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: 10 12 11 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 1309
Kevin Alcántara, projected: 10 12 11 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 630
Miguel Amaya, actual: 28 103 96 27 9 0 4 48 4 1 1 1 0 958
Miguel Amaya, projected: 28 102 91 22 4 0 3 35 6 1 1 3 0 644
Moisés Ballesteros, actual: 20 66 57 17 2 1 2 27 9 0 0 0 0 1148
Moisés Ballesteros, projected: 20 66 57 17 2 1 2 27 9 0 0 0 0 1081
Jon Berti, actual: 51 107 100 21 2 0 0 23 5 0 0 2 0 362
Jon Berti, projected: 51 106 94 24 4 1 1 34 10 0 0 1 0 702
Vidal Bruján, actual: 36 47 45 10 3 0 0 13 1 0 1 0 0 260
Vidal Bruján, projected: 36 47 42 8 2 0 0 12 3 0 0 1 0 263
Michael Busch, actual: 155 592 524 137 25 5 34 274 56 0 2 10 0 1050
Michael Busch, projected: 155 588 518 129 27 3 27 243 60 0 3 7 0 871
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Owen Caissie, actual: 12 27 26 5 1 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 435
Owen Caissie, projected: 12 27 26 5 1 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 435
Willi Castro, actual: 34 110 100 17 2 1 1 24 8 0 0 2 0 304
Willi Castro, projected: 34 109 98 24 5 1 2 38 7 0 1 3 0 662
Pete Crow-Armstrong, actual: 157 647 591 146 37 4 31 284 29 6 12 9 0 800
Pete Crow-Armstrong, projected: 157 642 583 140 30 6 24 255 32 10 9 9 0 687
Ian Happ, actual: 150 663 569 138 32 0 23 239 87 0 5 2 0 831
Ian Happ, projected: 150 658 569 141 32 2 26 254 80 1 4 5 0 852
Nico Hoerner, actual: 156 649 599 178 29 4 7 236 39 0 4 7 0 879
Nico Hoerner, projected: 156 644 587 166 29 3 8 225 43 0 4 10 0 801
Carson Kelly, actual: 111 421 369 92 13 1 17 158 45 0 4 3 0 796
Carson Kelly, projected: 111 418 369 84 16 1 13 141 41 1 3 5 0 626
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nicky Lopez, actual: 14 22 18 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 88
Nicky Lopez, projected: 14 22 20 5 1 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0 446
Reese McGuire, actual: 44 140 133 30 2 0 9 59 4 1 2 0 0 586
Reese McGuire, projected: 44 139 127 32 7 0 3 47 8 2 1 1 1 556
Colin Rea, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Colin Rea, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carlos Santana, actual: 8 19 19 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 47
Carlos Santana, projected: 8 19 16 4 1 0 1 7 3 0 0 0 0 884
Matt Shaw, actual: 126 437 393 89 21 3 13 155 38 0 4 2 0 683
Matt Shaw, projected: 126 434 390 88 21 3 13 154 38 0 4 2 0 674
Seiya Suzuki, actual: 151 651 571 140 31 3 32 273 71 0 8 1 0 855
Seiya Suzuki, projected: 151 646 569 153 32 5 25 269 67 0 6 4 0 911
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Dansby Swanson, actual: 159 645 590 144 24 3 24 246 47 1 5 2 0 736
Dansby Swanson, projected: 159 640 576 144 29 3 20 238 56 1 4 3 0 743
Kyle Tucker, actual: 136 597 500 133 25 4 22 232 87 1 3 4 2 1052
Kyle Tucker, projected: 136 593 515 140 30 4 28 261 68 0 4 2 3 1036
Justin Turner, actual: 80 191 169 37 7 0 3 53 17 0 4 1 0 562
Justin Turner, projected: 80 190 167 47 10 0 6 76 17 0 2 4 0 931
Gage Workman, actual: 9 15 14 3 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 447
Gage Workman, projected: 9 15 14 3 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 447
Cubs, Actual: 162 6162 5495 1371 267 29 223 2365 554 10 55 46 2 812
Cubs, Projected: 162 6118 5440 1379 284 33 203 2338 553 16 46 60 4 788


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.249 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.430 0.430
Walks (per PA): 0.090 0.090
SOs (per PA): 0.207 0.216
On-Base Average: 0.320 0.327
Power Factor: 1.725 1.695
OPS: 0.751 0.756
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 812
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 788
Actual Runs Scored: 793

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