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Guardians 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Guardians 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 0.989)

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: 8 37 29 5 2 0 2 13 5 0 1 2 0 1093
Jo Adell, projected: 8 37 34 7 1 0 2 14 2 0 0 1 0 628
Gabriel Arias, actual: 42 134 127 31 3 0 5 49 7 0 0 0 0 618
Gabriel Arias, projected: 42 132 122 27 6 0 3 44 9 0 1 1 0 492
Patrick Bailey, actual: 51 163 146 31 5 1 5 53 12 2 3 0 0 525
Patrick Bailey, projected: 51 161 146 33 6 1 3 49 12 1 2 1 0 498
Travis Bazzana, actual: 87 375 323 78 15 2 9 124 45 0 3 4 0 797
Travis Bazzana, projected: 87 371 319 77 15 2 9 123 44 0 3 4 0 782
Juan Brito, actual: 15 56 51 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 275
Juan Brito, projected: 15 55 50 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 281
Chase DeLauter, actual: 103 439 389 110 22 1 13 173 47 0 3 0 0 912
Chase DeLauter, projected: 103 434 385 109 22 1 13 171 46 0 3 0 0 895
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: 71 168 143 26 4 0 6 48 25 0 0 0 0 544
David Fry, projected: 71 166 145 33 6 0 6 59 17 0 1 3 0 660
Ángel Genao, actual: 7 27 24 8 1 0 1 12 2 0 0 1 0 1381
Ángel Genao, projected: 7 27 24 8 1 0 1 12 2 0 0 1 0 1382
Petey Halpin, actual: 50 123 114 25 3 1 2 36 3 3 1 2 0 428
Petey Halpin, projected: 50 122 111 25 3 1 2 35 5 3 1 2 0 458
Austin Hedges, actual: 59 183 158 43 7 0 4 62 18 4 2 1 0 769
Austin Hedges, projected: 59 181 162 31 5 0 5 52 12 3 2 2 0 397
Rhys Hoskins, actual: 93 310 257 46 13 0 13 98 46 0 4 3 0 680
Rhys Hoskins, projected: 93 306 259 60 14 1 15 121 40 0 3 4 0 901
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: 111 455 384 103 14 2 2 127 59 4 3 4 1 777
Steven Kwan, projected: 111 450 397 111 18 3 6 152 44 2 3 3 0 822
Nathaniel Lowe, actual: 6 21 19 5 1 0 1 9 1 0 1 0 0 1469
Nathaniel Lowe, projected: 6 21 18 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 811
Kyle Manzardo, actual: 102 356 312 67 10 1 13 118 36 0 2 6 0 661
Kyle Manzardo, projected: 102 352 313 71 14 1 15 133 31 0 3 5 0 702
Ángel Martínez, actual: 81 297 277 67 16 1 12 121 8 6 1 5 0 588
Ángel Martínez, projected: 81 294 270 62 14 1 8 103 14 4 2 3 0 517
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: 89 385 326 76 18 0 10 124 52 0 4 2 1 857
José Ramírez, projected: 89 381 335 93 22 2 16 167 38 1 3 3 0 992
Brayan Rocchio, actual: 118 461 414 104 17 2 9 152 31 4 3 9 0 650
Brayan Rocchio, projected: 118 456 406 94 20 1 7 138 34 3 5 8 0 544
Daniel Schneemann, actual: 83 276 252 52 11 0 6 81 24 0 0 0 0 467
Daniel Schneemann, projected: 83 273 245 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 3 0 0 0 0 491
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: 121 4561 4016 936 178 11 117 1487 447 23 31 42 2 501
Guardians, Projected: 121 4512 4007 962 199 15 126 1570 404 17 34 44 0 503


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.233 0.240
Slugging Average: 0.370 0.392
Walks (per PA): 0.098 0.090
SOs (per PA): 0.219 0.215
On-Base Average: 0.314 0.314
Power Factor: 1.589 1.632
OPS: 0.684 0.706
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 501
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 503
Actual Runs Scored: 483

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