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Reds 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Reds 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 1)

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
Edwin Arroyo, actual: 48 154 142 33 4 1 0 39 6 2 1 3 0 468
Edwin Arroyo, projected: 48 154 142 33 4 1 0 39 6 2 1 3 0 453
Will Banfield, actual: 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Will Banfield, projected: 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Will Benson, actual: 51 114 96 18 3 1 3 32 16 0 0 1 1 594
Will Benson, projected: 51 114 101 22 5 1 4 41 11 0 1 1 0 662
JJ Bleday, actual: 111 463 392 85 14 2 21 166 64 0 3 3 1 807
JJ Bleday, projected: 111 463 403 87 22 2 16 161 56 0 2 2 0 674
Juan Brito, actual: 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Juan Brito, projected: 1 4 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Elly De La Cruz, actual: 120 537 473 128 24 5 21 225 59 0 3 2 0 987
Elly De La Cruz, projected: 120 537 480 124 24 7 18 217 52 1 1 3 0 843
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Blake Dunn, actual: 38 155 142 40 7 1 2 55 10 0 1 2 0 744
Blake Dunn, projected: 38 155 136 32 6 1 2 46 12 0 1 6 0 604
TJ Friedl, actual: 81 263 231 38 6 1 4 58 21 5 1 5 0 321
TJ Friedl, projected: 81 263 228 56 8 2 7 90 24 2 2 6 0 756
Ke'Bryan Hayes, actual: 78 211 196 30 2 1 5 49 13 0 0 2 0 319
Ke'Bryan Hayes, projected: 78 211 194 48 8 1 4 70 14 0 1 1 0 578
P.J. Higgins, actual: 13 32 26 6 1 0 0 7 2 3 1 0 0 269
P.J. Higgins, projected: 13 32 28 6 1 0 1 10 3 1 0 0 0 519
Rece Hinds, actual: 12 36 33 4 3 0 0 7 1 0 1 1 0 162
Rece Hinds, projected: 12 36 34 6 2 0 2 14 2 0 0 1 0 496
Ivan Johnson, actual: 16 19 16 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 178
Ivan Johnson, projected: 16 19 16 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 125
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nathaniel Lowe, actual: 83 276 248 66 17 0 12 119 28 0 0 0 0 934
Nathaniel Lowe, projected: 83 276 243 64 11 1 9 104 30 0 2 1 0 841
Noelvi Marté, actual: 63 201 190 36 7 0 6 61 10 0 1 0 0 391
Noelvi Marté, projected: 63 201 189 45 9 0 6 73 9 0 1 2 0 567
Matt McLain, actual: 115 431 375 71 17 0 13 127 46 3 1 6 0 542
Matt McLain, projected: 115 431 382 88 18 1 13 149 40 2 2 5 0 680
Dane Myers, actual: 101 277 240 61 9 0 6 88 32 0 2 3 0 827
Dane Myers, projected: 101 277 249 62 10 0 6 89 23 0 2 3 0 636
Héctor Rodríguez, actual: 21 77 70 17 3 0 4 32 6 0 0 1 0 887
Héctor Rodríguez, projected: 21 77 70 17 3 0 4 32 6 0 0 1 0 844
Spencer Steer, actual: 98 384 340 81 14 0 16 143 35 0 2 6 1 733
Spencer Steer, projected: 98 384 339 82 18 1 13 143 38 0 2 5 0 764
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tyler Stephenson, actual: 109 394 347 87 19 0 14 148 41 0 4 2 0 784
Tyler Stephenson, projected: 109 394 349 90 19 0 13 149 38 0 3 4 0 794
Sal Stewart, actual: 139 603 534 143 25 0 31 261 57 0 8 4 0 913
Sal Stewart, projected: 139 603 537 143 24 0 33 265 55 0 7 4 0 891
Eugenio Suárez, actual: 107 426 373 77 16 0 20 153 44 0 3 6 0 687
Eugenio Suárez, projected: 107 426 374 91 17 1 21 172 41 1 4 7 0 824
Michael Toglia, actual: 10 28 26 3 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 101
Michael Toglia, projected: 10 28 25 5 1 0 1 10 3 0 0 0 0 513
Jose Trevino, actual: 40 130 126 29 3 0 5 47 1 2 1 0 0 475
Jose Trevino, projected: 40 130 122 29 6 0 3 44 6 1 1 1 0 482
Reds, Actual: 139 5219 4623 1054 196 12 183 1823 497 15 34 47 3 597
Reds, Projected: 139 5219 4649 1132 216 19 176 1920 472 10 33 56 0 622


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.228 0.243
Slugging Average: 0.394 0.413
Walks (per PA): 0.095 0.090
SOs (per PA): 0.253 0.248
On-Base Average: 0.307 0.319
Power Factor: 1.730 1.696
OPS: 0.702 0.732
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 597
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 622
Actual Runs Scored: 574

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