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White Sox 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 White Sox Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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 0.987)

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: 98 217 203 46 4 0 1 53 9 2 2 1 0 348
Luisangel Acuña, projected: 98 214 198 47 6 0 2 60 11 2 1 1 0 400
Sam Antonacci, actual: 135 534 460 124 24 4 8 180 42 3 2 27 0 922
Sam Antonacci, projected: 135 527 454 122 24 4 8 178 41 3 2 27 0 912
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: 136 452 409 99 24 2 14 169 36 1 5 1 0 705
Andrew Benintendi, projected: 136 446 397 105 22 2 11 166 41 1 4 2 0 777
Brenton Doyle, actual: 37 81 80 20 2 1 2 30 0 1 0 0 0 443
Brenton Doyle, projected: 37 80 74 17 3 1 2 28 5 0 1 0 0 598
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 31 5 0 0 2 0 500
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Randal Grichuk, actual: 96 229 217 64 19 2 13 126 9 0 2 1 0 956
Randal Grichuk, projected: 96 226 210 53 13 1 10 99 13 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 0 658
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 3 31 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 53 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: 150 629 553 148 29 0 15 222 60 5 4 6 1 800
Chase Meidroth, projected: 150 621 549 143 24 0 11 200 57 4 3 7 1 696
Braden Montgomery, actual: 87 344 302 64 15 3 6 103 38 0 1 3 0 554
Braden Montgomery, projected: 87 339 298 63 15 3 6 102 37 0 1 3 0 536
Colson Montgomery, actual: 147 616 546 112 24 0 31 229 54 0 2 14 0 685
Colson Montgomery, projected: 147 608 541 117 22 1 35 246 53 0 2 11 1 751
Munetaka Murakami, actual: 121 526 430 87 14 1 32 199 90 0 1 5 0 889
Munetaka Murakami, projected: 121 519 424 86 14 1 32 196 89 0 1 5 0 885
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: 150 472 419 114 31 4 12 189 37 4 2 10 0 898
Tristan Peters, projected: 150 466 415 110 30 4 12 182 36 4 2 10 0 832
Tommy Pham, actual: 5 12 10 3 0 0 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 1553
Tommy Pham, projected: 5 12 10 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 595
Edgar Quero, actual: 69 217 187 38 1 0 3 48 18 2 5 5 0 428
Edgar Quero, projected: 69 214 191 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: 60 203 177 25 5 0 7 51 20 2 1 3 0 401
Drew Romo, projected: 60 200 179 26 6 0 5 49 17 2 1 2 0 313
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: 34 121 103 19 3 0 4 34 16 0 0 2 0 664
Kyle Teel, projected: 34 119 102 25 4 0 3 39 15 0 0 2 0 818
Miguel Vargas, actual: 154 680 570 143 31 1 33 275 96 0 6 7 1 1027
Miguel Vargas, projected: 154 671 577 128 31 3 23 232 79 0 6 7 1 738
White Sox, Actual: 156 5948 5219 1222 243 18 199 2098 571 26 35 95 2 703
White Sox, Projected: 156 5871 5175 1214 239 21 182 2041 548 20 29 89 3 666


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.234 0.235
Slugging Average: 0.402 0.394
Walks (per PA): 0.096 0.093
SOs (per PA): 0.242 0.232
On-Base Average: 0.319 0.317
Power Factor: 1.717 1.681
OPS: 0.721 0.711
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 703
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 666
Actual Runs Scored: 733

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