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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox 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 0.986)

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: 89 207 194 46 4 0 1 53 8 2 2 1 0 355
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 89 204 189 46 6 0 2 58 10 2 1 1 0 411
Sam Antonacci, actual: 118 473 405 108 20 3 8 158 39 3 1 25 0 924
Sam Antonacci, projected: 118 466 399 107 20 3 8 156 38 3 1 25 0 915
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: 121 413 373 92 21 2 14 159 33 1 5 1 0 730
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 121 407 363 96 20 2 10 152 37 1 4 2 0 787
Brenton Doyle, actual: 25 54 53 11 1 0 2 18 0 1 0 0 0 356
Brenton Doyle, projected: 25 53 49 11 2 0 2 19 3 0 0 0 0 553
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 30 97 86 21 4 0 2 31 8 1 0 2 0 659
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 30 96 88 19 4 0 3 32 5 0 0 2 0 486
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Randal Grichuk, actual: 80 182 175 50 17 1 11 102 6 0 0 1 0 901
Randal Grichuk, projected: 80 179 167 42 10 1 8 78 10 0 1 1 0 708
Dustin Harris, actual: 6 16 12 3 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 1341
Dustin Harris, projected: 6 16 14 4 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 658
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 2 30 5 1 0 1 0 560
Jarred Kelenic, actual: 19 59 53 12 2 0 1 17 6 0 0 0 0 572
Jarred Kelenic, projected: 19 58 52 11 2 0 2 19 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: 132 557 491 134 27 0 12 197 53 5 3 4 1 787
Chase Meidroth, projected: 132 549 487 128 22 0 9 176 51 4 2 5 1 688
Braden Montgomery, actual: 70 288 254 57 12 3 5 90 30 0 1 3 0 594
Braden Montgomery, projected: 70 284 251 56 12 3 5 89 30 0 1 3 0 583
Colson Montgomery, actual: 130 550 491 106 22 0 29 215 47 0 2 10 0 725
Colson Montgomery, projected: 130 542 485 109 20 1 33 228 47 0 2 8 1 791
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 103 452 368 79 14 0 29 180 81 0 1 2 0 969
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 103 446 363 78 14 0 29 178 80 0 1 2 0 960
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 77 14 3 0 2 23 6 0 1 2 0 413
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: 133 418 373 103 27 3 12 172 33 4 2 6 0 909
Tristan Peters, projected: 133 412 369 99 26 3 12 165 32 4 2 6 0 841
Edgar Quero, actual: 65 210 183 38 1 0 3 48 16 2 5 4 0 422
Edgar Quero, projected: 65 207 185 46 6 0 3 60 16 1 2 3 0 565
Jake Rogers, actual: 11 31 27 3 0 0 1 6 4 0 0 0 0 264
Jake Rogers, projected: 11 31 27 5 1 0 1 10 3 0 0 0 0 477
Drew Romo, actual: 59 200 175 25 5 0 7 51 19 2 1 3 0 402
Drew Romo, projected: 59 197 176 26 6 0 5 49 16 2 1 2 0 313
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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
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: 136 601 502 126 30 1 29 245 86 0 5 7 1 1042
Miguel Vargas, projected: 136 593 510 112 29 2 20 204 70 0 5 7 1 724
White Sox, Actual: 138 5275 4641 1102 220 13 181 1891 498 26 30 78 2 627
White Sox, Projected: 138 5203 4594 1089 213 16 165 1828 483 20 25 73 3 594


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.237
Slugging Average: 0.407 0.398
Walks (per PA): 0.094 0.093
SOs (per PA): 0.238 0.229
On-Base Average: 0.320 0.318
Power Factor: 1.716 1.679
OPS: 0.727 0.716
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 627
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 594
Actual Runs Scored: 660

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