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Guardians 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 July 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 0.991)

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
Gabriel Arias, actual: 35 109 103 25 2 0 5 42 6 0 0 0 0 681
Gabriel Arias, projected: 35 108 99 22 5 0 3 36 7 0 1 1 0 520
Patrick Bailey, actual: 39 122 112 27 5 1 3 43 7 2 1 0 0 541
Patrick Bailey, projected: 39 121 110 25 5 0 2 37 9 1 1 0 0 471
Travis Bazzana, actual: 71 309 265 65 14 2 9 110 37 0 3 4 0 887
Travis Bazzana, projected: 71 306 263 64 14 2 9 109 37 0 3 4 0 877
Juan Brito, actual: 15 56 51 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 275
Juan Brito, projected: 15 56 51 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 275
Chase DeLauter, actual: 86 359 324 93 19 1 11 147 33 0 2 0 0 868
Chase DeLauter, projected: 86 356 321 92 19 1 11 146 33 0 2 0 0 849
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
David Fry, actual: 66 158 136 26 4 0 6 48 22 0 0 0 0 563
David Fry, projected: 66 157 137 31 6 0 6 56 15 0 1 3 0 659
Petey Halpin, actual: 36 84 78 17 3 1 2 28 2 3 1 0 0 412
Petey Halpin, projected: 36 83 76 17 3 1 2 27 4 3 1 0 0 489
Austin Hedges, actual: 49 151 132 37 7 0 3 53 12 4 2 1 0 744
Austin Hedges, projected: 49 150 134 26 4 0 4 43 10 3 1 2 0 394
Rhys Hoskins, actual: 80 276 227 41 13 0 11 87 42 0 4 3 0 691
Rhys Hoskins, projected: 80 274 231 54 13 1 13 109 36 0 2 4 0 894
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Steven Kwan, actual: 95 379 319 78 12 2 1 97 50 4 2 3 1 661
Steven Kwan, projected: 95 376 332 92 15 3 5 126 37 2 2 3 0 809
Kyle Manzardo, actual: 93 327 287 62 9 1 11 106 33 0 2 5 0 652
Kyle Manzardo, projected: 93 324 288 66 13 1 14 122 29 0 3 4 0 717
Ángel Martínez, actual: 66 243 226 54 11 1 11 100 7 4 1 5 0 617
Ángel Martínez, projected: 66 241 221 51 11 1 7 84 12 3 2 3 0 546
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: 73 319 273 66 18 0 10 114 41 0 3 1 1 923
José Ramírez, projected: 73 316 279 77 19 2 13 139 32 1 3 2 0 1002
Brayan Rocchio, actual: 100 385 345 95 15 2 9 141 27 3 3 7 0 815
Brayan Rocchio, projected: 100 382 340 81 17 1 6 119 29 3 4 7 0 574
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daniel Schneemann, actual: 82 275 251 52 11 0 6 81 24 0 0 0 0 471
Daniel Schneemann, projected: 82 273 244 51 12 1 7 85 26 0 1 1 0 548
George Valera, actual: 13 38 37 8 3 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 0 361
George Valera, projected: 13 38 34 7 2 0 1 12 4 0 0 0 0 550
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
Guardians, Actual: 103 3847 3400 797 159 11 102 1284 369 20 24 32 2 426
Guardians, Projected: 103 3816 3392 814 175 14 109 1342 343 16 28 36 0 431


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.234 0.240
Slugging Average: 0.378 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.096 0.090
SOs (per PA): 0.223 0.219
On-Base Average: 0.313 0.314
Power Factor: 1.611 1.649
OPS: 0.691 0.710
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 426
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 431
Actual Runs Scored: 416

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