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Cubs 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Cubs Projected Pitching

Through games of Tuesday, 22 September 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each pitcher 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 BFPs (Batters Faced Pitcher, the equivalent of Plate Appearances for batters) to his career BFPs, 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 BFPs. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career BFPs and 250 BFPs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had yielded, 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 BFPs 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 BFPs the man or team will see in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a staff with a great .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they see at 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, the batters, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a staff with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half the batters it faces make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, the batters 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 BFPs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—BFPs 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 behind him on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the staff’s total BFPs; 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 BFP total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team BFPs to actual BFPs (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 pitching, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 1.003)

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 TPP 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 batting numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Javier Assad, actual: 26 369 337 81 8 0 16 137 26 38 275 2 1 3 0 1 4 605
Javier Assad, projected: 26 370 330 80 14 2 12 133 34 35 275 1 2 3 2 0 7 660
Charlie Barnes, actual: 1 17 13 4 1 0 0 5 3 4 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1402
Charlie Barnes, projected: 1 17 15 5 1 0 1 7 2 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1458
Ty Blach, actual: 1 9 9 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ty Blach, projected: 1 9 8 2 0 0 0 4 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 324
Matthew Boyd, actual: 21 493 448 109 14 1 15 170 37 58 359 1 0 7 2 0 0 595
Matthew Boyd, projected: 21 494 447 112 21 2 18 194 36 63 359 2 3 6 3 1 4 710
Ben Brown, actual: 20 265 242 45 7 1 2 60 19 16 204 0 2 2 3 0 6 351
Ben Brown, projected: 20 266 242 57 10 1 7 91 19 31 204 1 2 2 2 0 5 591
Edward Cabrera, actual: 18 350 307 83 12 0 16 143 36 58 240 1 3 2 2 0 12 909
Edward Cabrera, projected: 18 351 303 69 12 0 12 118 40 43 240 0 1 5 2 0 14 747
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Aaron Civale, actual: 17 141 126 24 3 1 2 35 11 8 103 1 0 3 0 1 1 423
Aaron Civale, projected: 17 141 129 32 7 0 5 55 9 16 103 0 1 2 1 0 1 677
Tyler Ferguson, actual: 17 70 63 11 2 0 4 25 4 7 52 0 0 3 0 0 0 604
Tyler Ferguson, projected: 17 70 60 12 2 1 2 21 8 9 52 0 1 1 0 1 1 610
Kevin Gausman, actual: 8 188 176 45 5 0 10 80 10 26 134 0 2 0 1 0 7 815
Kevin Gausman, projected: 8 189 173 43 9 1 6 70 13 21 134 1 1 1 1 0 3 689
Hunter Harvey, actual: 4 18 17 5 0 0 2 11 1 3 12 0 0 0 1 0 1 1403
Hunter Harvey, projected: 4 18 16 4 1 0 0 6 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 527
Gavin Hollowell, actual: 14 62 53 11 3 0 2 20 8 5 43 0 0 1 0 0 0 664
Gavin Hollowell, projected: 14 62 53 13 2 0 3 23 8 8 43 0 0 1 0 0 1 879
Clay Holmes, actual: 8 184 160 34 3 1 3 48 21 22 133 1 1 1 0 0 4 520
Clay Holmes, projected: 8 185 161 37 6 0 3 52 19 19 133 0 1 3 1 1 2 567
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Cade Horton, actual: 2 26 24 4 0 0 1 7 2 2 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 309
Cade Horton, projected: 2 26 24 5 1 0 1 8 2 2 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 405
Shota Imanaga, actual: 31 702 656 153 22 2 34 281 37 74 520 1 1 7 2 0 5 645
Shota Imanaga, projected: 31 704 665 150 23 1 33 275 33 72 520 1 1 4 4 0 4 606
Antoine Kelly, actual: 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Antoine Kelly, projected: 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carson Kelly, actual: 3 13 13 4 0 0 2 10 0 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1358
Carson Kelly, projected: 3 13 13 4 0 0 2 10 0 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1350
Luke Little, actual: 1 5 5 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2237
Luke Little, projected: 1 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 324
Corbin Martin, actual: 7 25 20 5 0 0 2 11 5 6 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1352
Corbin Martin, projected: 7 25 21 6 1 0 1 12 3 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1041
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Riley Martin, actual: 8 31 28 5 0 0 1 8 2 2 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 325
Riley Martin, projected: 8 31 28 5 0 0 1 8 2 2 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 324
Phil Maton, actual: 31 136 111 34 4 2 5 57 16 19 83 1 3 5 0 0 1 1311
Phil Maton, projected: 31 136 119 28 6 1 4 47 13 16 83 1 1 3 1 1 2 831
Hoby Milner, actual: 38 149 133 34 7 0 4 53 9 14 107 2 2 3 0 1 3 648
Hoby Milner, projected: 38 149 135 34 7 0 4 54 10 17 107 1 1 2 1 1 1 648
Jayden Murray, actual: 2 17 15 6 2 0 2 14 2 6 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 2771
Jayden Murray, projected: 2 17 15 5 1 0 0 7 2 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1053
Daniel Palencia, actual: 31 119 107 25 5 0 4 42 10 13 86 0 1 1 1 1 2 651
Daniel Palencia, projected: 31 119 105 24 4 1 3 38 12 13 86 0 0 1 1 0 2 627
David Peterson, actual: 15 325 289 72 10 0 9 109 33 35 226 1 1 1 1 0 7 706
David Peterson, projected: 15 326 287 73 14 1 8 113 32 39 226 1 2 4 2 0 2 724
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Drew Pomeranz, actual: 6 27 23 7 0 0 2 13 4 5 17 0 0 0 0 0 1 1316
Drew Pomeranz, projected: 6 27 24 6 1 0 1 9 3 3 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 783
Colin Rea, actual: 32 578 519 134 22 1 21 221 47 68 402 3 2 7 1 0 5 758
Colin Rea, projected: 32 580 523 133 25 3 21 225 42 70 402 3 4 7 4 1 11 770
Yacksel Ríos, actual: 1 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yacksel Ríos, projected: 1 5 4 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
Ethan Roberts, actual: 23 110 93 22 2 1 3 35 14 14 77 0 0 3 0 0 3 706
Ethan Roberts, projected: 23 110 96 26 4 1 4 45 12 14 77 0 0 2 0 0 1 852
Ryan Rolison, actual: 58 249 220 50 10 0 6 78 27 22 186 1 1 0 1 1 1 509
Ryan Rolison, projected: 58 250 220 59 9 1 10 98 27 32 186 1 2 0 2 1 2 746
Jameson Taillon, actual: 15 326 297 76 10 0 25 161 27 51 228 0 0 2 0 1 8 950
Jameson Taillon, projected: 15 327 302 75 15 1 12 128 19 37 228 1 2 2 2 1 6 713
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Caleb Thielbar, actual: 57 207 186 46 6 0 11 85 18 30 146 2 0 1 1 3 3 775
Caleb Thielbar, projected: 57 208 188 42 8 1 6 70 16 21 146 1 2 1 1 2 3 608
Trent Thornton, actual: 48 196 175 41 8 0 8 73 17 21 145 1 0 3 0 2 6 622
Trent Thornton, projected: 48 197 176 45 9 1 7 77 16 24 145 1 2 2 1 1 3 726
Vince Velasquez, actual: 2 11 11 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 41
Vince Velasquez, projected: 2 11 10 2 1 0 0 4 1 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 324
Andrew Wantz, actual: 1 9 8 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 948
Andrew Wantz, projected: 1 9 8 2 0 0 0 3 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 324
Jacob Webb, actual: 66 275 247 58 5 0 10 93 24 28 194 0 3 1 2 0 3 702
Jacob Webb, projected: 66 276 244 53 10 1 8 88 27 27 194 1 1 2 2 2 5 631
Jordan Wicks, actual: 4 50 47 18 3 1 1 26 2 12 31 0 0 1 0 0 1 1359
Jordan Wicks, projected: 4 50 46 14 3 0 2 22 4 8 31 1 0 0 0 0 1 1053
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Bryse Wilson, actual: 2 38 35 12 0 1 2 20 1 7 23 0 0 2 0 0 0 1450
Bryse Wilson, projected: 2 38 35 10 2 0 2 16 3 5 23 0 0 0 0 0 1 1053
Jake Woodford, actual: 2 14 13 6 0 1 1 11 0 3 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 1920
Jake Woodford, projected: 2 14 13 4 1 0 0 6 1 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Ryan Zeferjahn, actual: 19 77 66 19 3 0 2 28 8 10 51 1 1 1 0 2 3 886
Ryan Zeferjahn, projected: 19 77 64 13 2 0 2 23 10 8 51 0 0 2 0 1 2 657
Cubs, Actual: 157 5890 5300 1290 179 13 229 2182 483 691 4212 20 25 61 18 13 89 674
Cubs, Projected: 157 5906 5309 1286 232 20 201 2163 484 675 4212 19 30 56 33 14 85 667


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.243 0.242
Slugging Average: 0.412 0.407
Walks (per PA): 0.082 0.082
SOs (per PA): 0.208 0.222
On-Base Average: 0.312 0.311
Power Factor: 1.691 1.682
OPS: 0.724 0.718
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 674
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 667
Actual Runs Scored: 691

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