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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 0.987)

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: 84 193 181 43 3 0 1 49 7 2 2 1 0 369
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 84 190 177 43 5 0 2 55 9 2 1 1 0 423
Sam Antonacci, actual: 99 395 342 95 17 2 8 140 28 3 1 21 0 966
Sam Antonacci, projected: 99 390 338 94 17 2 8 138 28 3 1 21 0 950
Joey Bart, actual: 3 9 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 253
Joey Bart, projected: 3 9 8 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 559
Andrew Benintendi, actual: 105 355 320 78 18 2 12 136 29 1 4 1 0 714
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 105 350 312 83 18 2 9 130 32 1 3 2 0 792
Brenton Doyle, actual: 8 21 21 6 1 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 853
Brenton Doyle, projected: 8 21 19 4 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 687
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 30 97 86 21 4 0 2 31 8 1 0 2 0 659
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 30 96 88 20 4 0 3 33 5 1 1 2 0 515
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Randal Grichuk, actual: 66 153 146 40 11 1 9 80 6 0 0 1 0 830
Randal Grichuk, projected: 66 151 141 35 9 1 7 66 8 0 1 1 0 718
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
Austin Hays, actual: 12 44 43 10 1 0 1 14 1 0 0 0 0 353
Austin Hays, projected: 12 43 40 10 2 0 1 17 3 0 0 1 0 641
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 0 586
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Chase Meidroth, actual: 114 479 420 116 21 0 12 173 46 5 3 4 1 813
Chase Meidroth, projected: 114 473 418 111 17 0 8 152 44 4 2 5 0 689
Braden Montgomery, actual: 52 212 187 43 10 2 4 69 21 0 1 3 0 618
Braden Montgomery, projected: 52 209 185 42 10 2 4 68 21 0 1 3 0 612
Colson Montgomery, actual: 113 477 425 91 18 0 26 187 40 0 2 10 0 726
Colson Montgomery, projected: 113 471 421 94 17 1 29 199 40 0 2 7 1 794
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 84 367 302 71 12 0 26 161 63 0 1 1 0 1070
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 84 362 298 70 12 0 26 159 62 0 1 1 0 1052
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Everson Pereira, actual: 27 88 80 18 5 0 4 35 5 0 1 2 0 655
Everson Pereira, projected: 27 87 78 14 3 0 2 24 7 0 1 2 0 404
Junior Pérez, actual: 22 36 35 6 0 0 3 15 1 0 0 0 0 525
Junior Pérez, projected: 22 36 35 6 0 0 3 15 1 0 0 0 0 479
Tristan Peters, actual: 114 351 314 83 23 3 6 130 26 4 2 5 0 772
Tristan Peters, projected: 114 346 311 79 22 3 6 124 25 4 2 5 0 704
Edgar Quero, actual: 64 205 178 35 1 0 3 45 16 2 5 4 0 394
Edgar Quero, projected: 64 202 181 44 6 0 3 58 16 1 2 3 0 555
Drew Romo, actual: 48 164 147 20 5 0 6 43 13 1 1 2 0 367
Drew Romo, projected: 48 162 148 21 6 0 4 40 11 1 1 1 0 282
Lenyn Sosa, actual: 12 33 33 7 3 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 271
Lenyn Sosa, projected: 12 33 31 7 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 0 0 466
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Kyle Teel, actual: 19 70 63 12 2 0 2 20 6 0 0 1 0 523
Kyle Teel, projected: 19 69 59 15 2 0 2 23 8 0 0 1 0 875
Miguel Vargas, actual: 117 513 434 102 26 1 25 205 66 0 5 7 1 924
Miguel Vargas, projected: 117 506 438 94 25 2 16 171 57 0 5 6 1 686
White Sox, Actual: 119 4524 3994 947 185 11 157 1625 404 24 29 71 2 534
White Sox, Projected: 119 4466 3963 942 184 14 142 1576 396 20 25 64 2 508


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.238
Slugging Average: 0.407 0.398
Walks (per PA): 0.089 0.089
SOs (per PA): 0.240 0.230
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.315
Power Factor: 1.716 1.673
OPS: 0.723 0.713
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 534
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 508
Actual Runs Scored: 566

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