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Guardians 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Guardians 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 0.985)

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
Jo Adell, actual: 48 204 180 44 10 0 7 75 18 0 2 4 0 840
Jo Adell, projected: 48 201 184 42 7 1 9 76 12 0 1 4 0 634
Gabriel Arias, actual: 42 134 127 31 3 0 5 49 7 0 0 0 0 618
Gabriel Arias, projected: 42 132 121 27 6 0 3 43 9 0 1 1 0 492
Patrick Bailey, actual: 82 256 228 52 8 1 9 89 21 3 3 1 0 652
Patrick Bailey, projected: 82 252 228 51 9 1 5 77 19 2 3 1 0 507
Travis Bazzana, actual: 124 517 449 110 22 3 15 183 56 0 5 7 0 802
Travis Bazzana, projected: 124 509 442 108 22 3 15 180 55 0 5 7 0 789
Juan Brito, actual: 15 56 51 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 275
Juan Brito, projected: 15 55 51 12 3 0 1 20 3 0 0 0 0 467
Chase DeLauter, actual: 133 559 495 142 30 3 16 226 60 0 3 1 0 949
Chase DeLauter, projected: 133 551 488 140 30 3 16 223 59 0 3 1 0 940
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Stuart Fairchild, actual: 14 27 19 3 0 0 0 3 7 0 0 1 0 810
Stuart Fairchild, projected: 14 27 23 5 1 0 1 9 2 0 0 1 0 679
David Fry, actual: 91 214 184 37 6 0 8 67 28 0 0 2 0 618
David Fry, projected: 91 211 184 42 8 0 8 75 21 0 1 4 0 672
Ángel Genao, actual: 43 139 127 27 4 0 2 37 11 0 0 1 0 427
Ángel Genao, projected: 43 137 125 27 4 0 2 36 11 0 0 1 0 441
Petey Halpin, actual: 83 195 178 40 4 1 4 58 9 5 1 2 0 483
Petey Halpin, projected: 83 192 174 40 4 1 4 57 10 5 1 2 0 487
Austin Hedges, actual: 78 247 215 53 10 0 6 81 25 4 2 1 0 683
Austin Hedges, projected: 78 243 218 41 7 0 7 69 16 4 2 2 0 394
Rhys Hoskins, actual: 95 317 263 47 13 0 13 99 47 0 4 3 0 672
Rhys Hoskins, projected: 95 312 264 62 15 1 15 124 41 0 3 4 0 903
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cooper Ingle, actual: 7 24 21 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 120
Cooper Ingle, projected: 7 24 21 2 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 120
C.J. Kayfus, actual: 9 25 22 4 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 1 0 586
C.J. Kayfus, projected: 9 25 22 5 2 0 1 9 2 0 0 0 0 686
Steven Kwan, actual: 151 637 539 152 21 3 3 188 85 5 3 4 1 882
Steven Kwan, projected: 151 627 553 156 25 4 8 211 63 3 4 4 0 836
Nathaniel Lowe, actual: 43 153 133 30 5 0 5 50 10 0 8 2 0 701
Nathaniel Lowe, projected: 43 151 133 35 6 1 5 57 16 0 1 1 0 862
Kyle Manzardo, actual: 102 356 312 67 10 1 13 118 36 0 2 6 0 661
Kyle Manzardo, projected: 102 351 312 71 14 1 15 132 31 0 3 5 0 707
Ángel Martínez, actual: 114 416 389 99 24 2 18 181 13 6 1 7 0 657
Ángel Martínez, projected: 114 410 378 90 21 2 12 150 20 5 3 5 0 562
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Bo Naylor, actual: 28 90 84 12 2 0 2 20 6 0 0 0 0 248
Bo Naylor, projected: 28 89 79 16 4 0 3 29 9 0 1 0 0 558
José Ramírez, actual: 125 544 473 111 27 0 12 174 60 0 7 3 1 769
José Ramírez, projected: 125 536 473 131 31 3 22 233 53 1 5 4 0 988
Brayan Rocchio, actual: 153 592 534 135 25 2 15 209 38 5 4 11 0 667
Brayan Rocchio, projected: 153 583 521 122 26 2 11 184 42 4 6 10 0 564
Daniel Schneemann, actual: 91 286 262 55 11 0 7 87 24 0 0 0 0 490
Daniel Schneemann, projected: 91 282 253 53 12 1 7 89 26 0 1 1 0 541
George Valera, actual: 13 38 37 8 3 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 0 361
George Valera, projected: 13 37 34 7 2 0 1 12 3 0 0 0 0 522
Kahlil Watson, actual: 27 91 88 21 6 0 1 30 3 0 0 0 0 470
Kahlil Watson, projected: 27 90 87 21 6 0 1 30 3 0 0 0 0 455
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Guardians, Actual: 162 6117 5410 1291 249 16 162 2058 574 28 45 58 2 696
Guardians, Projected: 162 6027 5368 1306 265 24 172 2127 529 24 44 58 0 684


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.239 0.243
Slugging Average: 0.380 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.094 0.088
SOs (per PA): 0.208 0.208
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.316
Power Factor: 1.594 1.629
OPS: 0.696 0.712
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 696
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 684
Actual Runs Scored: 678

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