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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 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 0.99)

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
Luisangel Acuña, actual: 71 165 153 38 3 0 1 44 7 2 2 1 0 424
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 71 163 151 37 5 0 2 48 9 2 1 1 0 461
Sam Antonacci, actual: 81 330 284 79 12 2 7 116 24 3 1 18 0 983
Sam Antonacci, projected: 81 327 281 78 12 2 7 115 24 3 1 18 0 954
Andrew Benintendi, actual: 89 308 277 68 16 2 10 118 26 1 4 0 0 709
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 89 305 272 72 15 1 8 113 28 1 3 2 0 787
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 30 97 86 21 4 0 2 31 8 1 0 2 0 659
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 30 96 87 22 4 0 3 36 7 1 0 2 0 690
Randal Grichuk, actual: 50 120 114 30 6 1 9 65 5 0 0 1 0 864
Randal Grichuk, projected: 50 119 111 28 7 1 5 52 7 0 1 1 0 725
Dustin Harris, actual: 6 16 12 3 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 1341
Dustin Harris, projected: 6 16 14 3 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 464
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Austin Hays, actual: 12 44 43 10 1 0 1 14 1 0 0 0 0 353
Austin Hays, projected: 12 44 40 10 2 0 1 17 3 0 0 1 0 628
Derek Hill, actual: 50 90 80 17 1 0 4 30 7 2 0 1 0 506
Derek Hill, projected: 50 89 82 19 2 1 3 30 5 1 0 1 0 607
Jarred Kelenic, actual: 19 59 53 12 2 0 1 17 6 0 0 0 0 572
Jarred Kelenic, projected: 19 58 53 11 2 0 2 20 5 0 0 0 0 542
Reese McGuire, actual: 11 34 29 5 0 0 0 5 2 1 0 2 0 254
Reese McGuire, projected: 11 34 31 8 2 0 1 11 2 0 0 0 0 582
Chase Meidroth, actual: 98 411 364 101 17 0 7 139 38 4 2 2 1 775
Chase Meidroth, projected: 98 407 362 96 14 0 5 126 37 3 1 4 0 657
Braden Montgomery, actual: 35 141 127 30 10 1 3 51 12 0 1 1 0 585
Braden Montgomery, projected: 35 140 126 30 10 1 3 50 12 0 1 1 0 594
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Colson Montgomery, actual: 96 402 359 79 17 0 24 168 34 0 0 9 0 785
Colson Montgomery, projected: 96 398 356 81 15 1 26 176 34 0 1 6 1 837
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 66 285 230 53 7 0 20 120 53 0 1 1 0 1073
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 66 282 228 52 7 0 20 119 52 0 1 1 0 1060
Tanner Murray, actual: 13 33 28 6 0 0 1 9 2 1 1 1 0 810
Tanner Murray, projected: 13 33 28 6 0 0 1 9 2 1 1 1 0 811
Rikuu Nishida, actual: 12 30 29 7 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 375
Rikuu Nishida, projected: 12 30 29 7 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 376
Everson Pereira, actual: 21 77 69 16 4 0 3 29 5 0 1 2 0 668
Everson Pereira, projected: 21 76 68 12 3 0 2 19 6 0 1 1 0 422
Junior Pérez, actual: 21 35 34 5 0 0 2 11 1 0 0 0 0 361
Junior Pérez, projected: 21 35 34 5 0 0 2 11 1 0 0 0 0 327
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tristan Peters, actual: 97 299 270 77 21 3 6 122 20 4 2 3 0 880
Tristan Peters, projected: 97 296 268 73 20 3 6 116 19 4 2 3 0 781
Edgar Quero, actual: 56 176 153 28 1 0 2 35 13 2 5 3 0 324
Edgar Quero, projected: 56 174 156 38 5 0 2 50 14 1 2 2 0 525
Drew Romo, actual: 38 130 115 15 5 0 5 35 12 1 1 1 0 359
Drew Romo, projected: 38 129 117 17 6 0 3 33 10 1 1 1 0 270
Lenyn Sosa, actual: 12 33 33 7 3 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 271
Lenyn Sosa, projected: 12 33 31 8 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 0 0 508
Kyle Teel, actual: 19 70 63 12 2 0 2 20 6 0 0 1 0 523
Kyle Teel, projected: 19 69 60 15 2 0 2 23 8 0 0 1 0 875
Miguel Vargas, actual: 100 435 368 90 24 1 21 179 56 0 4 6 1 983
Miguel Vargas, projected: 100 431 373 80 21 2 14 146 48 0 4 5 1 687
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
White Sox, Actual: 101 3820 3373 809 157 10 131 1379 342 23 25 55 2 455
White Sox, Projected: 101 3784 3358 808 156 12 119 1344 336 19 21 52 2 436


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.240 0.241
Slugging Average: 0.409 0.400
Walks (per PA): 0.090 0.089
SOs (per PA): 0.237 0.227
On-Base Average: 0.318 0.317
Power Factor: 1.705 1.663
OPS: 0.727 0.718
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 455
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 436
Actual Runs Scored: 483

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