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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 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: 103 224 210 48 4 0 2 58 9 2 2 1 0 391
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 103 221 205 49 6 0 2 63 11 2 1 1 0 418
Sam Antonacci, actual: 140 557 480 133 25 4 8 190 43 3 2 29 0 953
Sam Antonacci, projected: 140 549 473 131 25 4 8 187 42 3 2 29 0 934
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: 141 468 421 101 24 2 15 174 39 1 6 1 0 712
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 141 461 411 109 23 2 12 171 42 1 4 3 0 788
Brenton Doyle, actual: 42 94 93 24 2 1 5 43 0 1 0 0 0 600
Brenton Doyle, projected: 42 93 85 20 4 1 3 33 6 1 1 0 0 611
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 0 471
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Randal Grichuk, actual: 101 247 234 70 21 2 15 140 10 0 2 1 0 1002
Randal Grichuk, projected: 101 243 227 57 14 1 11 107 14 0 1 2 0 714
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 6 1 0 0 0 0 526
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 0 616
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: 154 643 566 156 31 0 16 235 61 5 4 6 1 847
Chase Meidroth, projected: 154 634 561 149 25 0 12 209 59 4 3 7 1 728
Braden Montgomery, actual: 93 365 323 73 16 3 6 113 38 0 1 3 0 588
Braden Montgomery, projected: 93 360 318 72 16 3 6 111 37 0 1 3 0 573
Colson Montgomery, actual: 153 638 568 112 24 0 31 229 54 0 2 14 0 634
Colson Montgomery, projected: 153 629 561 118 23 1 35 248 54 0 2 11 1 710
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 127 553 454 94 16 1 35 217 92 0 1 6 0 918
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 127 545 447 93 16 1 34 214 91 0 1 6 0 905
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 35 34 6 0 0 3 15 1 0 0 0 0 481
Tristan Peters, actual: 156 491 437 116 31 4 12 191 37 4 2 11 0 848
Tristan Peters, projected: 156 484 432 112 30 4 12 184 36 4 2 11 0 791
Tommy Pham, actual: 8 21 17 3 0 0 1 6 4 0 0 0 0 758
Tommy Pham, projected: 8 21 18 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 969
Edgar Quero, actual: 69 217 187 38 1 0 3 48 18 2 5 5 0 428
Edgar Quero, projected: 69 214 190 47 6 0 3 61 17 1 2 3 0 566
Jake Rogers, actual: 18 46 39 4 0 0 1 7 7 0 0 0 0 225
Jake Rogers, projected: 18 45 40 8 2 0 2 15 4 0 0 0 0 540
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Drew Romo, actual: 61 206 180 26 6 0 7 53 20 2 1 3 0 406
Drew Romo, projected: 61 203 181 27 7 0 5 50 17 2 1 2 0 318
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: 39 144 119 25 3 0 5 43 19 1 1 4 0 760
Kyle Teel, projected: 39 142 120 30 5 0 4 47 18 1 1 3 0 886
Miguel Vargas, actual: 159 704 588 147 31 1 33 279 101 0 7 7 1 1018
Miguel Vargas, projected: 159 694 596 132 32 3 23 238 83 0 7 7 1 735
White Sox, Actual: 162 6187 5430 1282 252 18 211 2203 589 27 38 101 2 742
White Sox, Projected: 162 6101 5379 1272 252 21 190 2130 565 22 31 95 3 698


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.236 0.236
Slugging Average: 0.406 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.095 0.093
SOs (per PA): 0.241 0.232
On-Base Average: 0.320 0.318
Power Factor: 1.718 1.675
OPS: 0.726 0.714
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 742
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 698
Actual Runs Scored: 776

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