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Reds 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Reds Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 1.001)

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: 44 142 131 32 3 1 0 37 5 2 1 3 0 513
Edwin Arroyo, projected: 44 142 131 32 3 1 0 37 5 2 1 3 0 513
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: 91 381 322 71 12 1 20 145 54 0 2 2 1 864
JJ Bleday, projected: 91 382 332 72 19 1 14 135 46 0 2 2 0 691
Elly De La Cruz, actual: 100 448 395 106 18 5 20 194 48 0 3 2 0 1026
Elly De La Cruz, projected: 100 449 401 103 20 6 16 182 43 1 1 2 0 846
Blake Dunn, actual: 38 155 142 40 7 1 2 55 10 0 1 2 0 744
Blake Dunn, projected: 38 155 137 32 6 1 2 46 12 0 1 6 0 604
TJ Friedl, actual: 68 239 209 34 6 1 3 51 20 5 1 4 0 311
TJ Friedl, projected: 68 239 207 51 7 2 6 82 22 2 2 6 0 765
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ke'Bryan Hayes, actual: 65 178 167 23 2 1 4 39 9 0 0 2 0 262
Ke'Bryan Hayes, projected: 65 178 164 40 7 1 3 59 12 0 1 1 0 569
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: 12 14 12 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 227
Ivan Johnson, projected: 12 14 12 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 226
Nathaniel Lowe, actual: 83 276 248 66 17 0 12 119 28 0 0 0 0 934
Nathaniel Lowe, projected: 83 276 244 64 11 1 9 104 30 0 1 1 0 846
Noelvi Marté, actual: 58 192 181 36 7 0 6 61 10 0 1 0 0 428
Noelvi Marté, projected: 58 192 181 44 8 0 6 70 9 0 1 1 0 592
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Matt McLain, actual: 95 351 304 59 15 0 10 104 40 2 1 4 0 564
Matt McLain, projected: 95 351 311 73 15 1 11 123 33 1 1 4 0 704
Dane Myers, actual: 84 211 181 46 8 0 3 63 25 0 2 3 0 780
Dane Myers, projected: 84 211 190 47 8 0 4 67 17 0 2 2 0 613
Héctor Rodríguez, actual: 7 21 18 2 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 205
Héctor Rodríguez, projected: 7 21 18 2 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 205
Spencer Steer, actual: 98 384 340 81 14 0 16 143 35 0 2 6 1 733
Spencer Steer, projected: 98 385 339 82 18 1 13 143 38 0 2 5 0 762
Tyler Stephenson, actual: 91 325 287 71 16 0 10 117 35 0 2 1 0 740
Tyler Stephenson, projected: 91 325 288 75 16 0 10 122 31 0 2 4 0 790
Sal Stewart, actual: 119 515 453 116 23 0 25 214 52 0 7 3 0 865
Sal Stewart, projected: 119 516 457 117 22 0 27 220 50 0 6 3 0 851
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Eugenio Suárez, actual: 88 350 314 64 14 0 17 129 32 0 1 3 0 647
Eugenio Suárez, projected: 88 350 308 75 14 1 17 142 33 0 3 5 0 813
Michael Toglia, actual: 2 5 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 190
Michael Toglia, projected: 2 5 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 379
Jose Trevino, actual: 30 96 93 22 3 0 4 37 1 2 0 0 0 571
Jose Trevino, projected: 30 96 90 21 4 0 2 33 4 1 1 0 0 465
Reds, Actual: 119 4465 3957 899 173 11 155 1559 428 14 26 37 3 508
Reds, Projected: 119 4469 3977 966 187 17 147 1636 406 8 28 47 0 532


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.227 0.243
Slugging Average: 0.394 0.411
Walks (per PA): 0.096 0.091
SOs (per PA): 0.254 0.248
On-Base Average: 0.307 0.318
Power Factor: 1.734 1.694
OPS: 0.701 0.730
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 508
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 532
Actual Runs Scored: 487

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