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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Saturday, 18 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: 69 161 149 36 3 0 1 42 7 2 2 1 0 403
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 69 159 147 36 5 0 2 47 8 2 1 1 0 449
Sam Antonacci, actual: 77 313 270 77 12 2 7 114 22 2 1 18 0 1047
Sam Antonacci, projected: 77 310 267 76 12 2 7 113 22 2 1 18 0 1023
Andrew Benintendi, actual: 85 294 265 64 14 2 10 112 25 1 3 0 0 704
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 85 291 259 69 15 1 7 108 27 1 3 2 0 788
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 30 97 86 21 4 0 2 31 8 1 0 2 0 659
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 30 96 86 21 4 0 3 34 7 1 0 2 0 699
Randal Grichuk, actual: 47 114 108 28 6 0 9 61 5 0 0 1 0 850
Randal Grichuk, projected: 47 113 105 26 6 1 5 49 6 0 1 1 0 713
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 2 30 5 1 0 1 0 552
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: 95 399 353 96 17 0 7 134 37 4 2 2 1 753
Chase Meidroth, projected: 95 395 351 92 14 0 5 122 36 3 1 3 0 648
Braden Montgomery, actual: 31 124 112 26 9 1 3 46 10 0 1 1 0 611
Braden Montgomery, projected: 31 123 111 26 9 1 3 46 10 0 1 1 0 599
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Colson Montgomery, actual: 93 390 348 77 17 0 23 163 33 0 0 9 0 788
Colson Montgomery, projected: 93 386 346 79 15 1 25 171 33 0 1 6 1 842
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 62 268 218 51 6 0 20 117 48 0 1 1 0 1091
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 62 265 216 51 6 0 20 116 48 0 1 1 0 1097
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: 18 33 32 5 0 0 2 11 1 0 0 0 0 393
Junior Pérez, projected: 18 33 32 5 0 0 2 11 1 0 0 0 0 353
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tristan Peters, actual: 93 283 256 76 20 3 6 120 18 4 2 3 0 946
Tristan Peters, projected: 93 280 255 72 19 3 6 114 17 4 2 3 0 837
Edgar Quero, actual: 55 172 150 28 1 0 2 35 12 2 5 3 0 328
Edgar Quero, projected: 55 170 153 37 5 0 2 49 13 1 2 2 0 535
Drew Romo, actual: 35 120 105 14 4 0 5 33 12 1 1 1 0 389
Drew Romo, projected: 35 119 107 16 5 0 3 30 9 1 1 1 0 285
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: 18 69 62 12 2 0 2 20 6 0 0 1 0 539
Kyle Teel, projected: 18 68 59 15 2 0 2 23 8 0 0 1 0 887
Miguel Vargas, actual: 96 418 351 86 21 1 21 172 56 0 4 6 1 1011
Miguel Vargas, projected: 96 414 358 77 20 2 13 140 46 0 4 5 1 684
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
White Sox, Actual: 97 3671 3241 780 148 9 130 1336 327 22 24 55 2 443
White Sox, Projected: 97 3635 3228 782 150 12 115 1303 317 18 21 51 2 424


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.241 0.242
Slugging Average: 0.412 0.404
Walks (per PA): 0.089 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.237 0.228
On-Base Average: 0.319 0.318
Power Factor: 1.713 1.666
OPS: 0.731 0.722
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 443
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 424
Actual Runs Scored: 466

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