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Guardians 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Guardians 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 0.986)

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: 24 102 89 23 7 0 4 42 10 0 1 2 0 989
Jo Adell, projected: 24 101 92 21 4 0 4 38 6 0 0 2 0 583
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 43 9 0 1 1 0 492
Patrick Bailey, actual: 63 200 177 40 7 1 7 70 18 2 3 0 0 665
Patrick Bailey, projected: 63 197 178 40 8 1 4 60 15 1 2 1 0 517
Travis Bazzana, actual: 102 434 375 89 17 2 9 137 49 0 5 5 0 747
Travis Bazzana, projected: 102 428 370 88 17 2 9 135 48 0 5 5 0 736
Juan Brito, actual: 15 56 51 9 4 0 0 13 4 0 0 1 0 275
Juan Brito, projected: 15 55 50 8 4 0 0 12 4 0 1 1 0 243
Chase DeLauter, actual: 116 484 431 125 24 3 13 194 50 0 3 0 0 941
Chase DeLauter, projected: 116 477 425 123 24 3 13 191 49 0 3 0 0 928
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: 74 172 146 27 5 0 6 50 26 0 0 0 0 560
David Fry, projected: 74 170 148 33 7 0 7 60 17 0 1 3 0 678
Ángel Genao, actual: 22 83 76 20 3 0 2 29 6 0 0 1 0 815
Ángel Genao, projected: 22 82 75 20 3 0 2 29 6 0 0 1 0 799
Petey Halpin, actual: 65 159 146 32 4 1 3 47 6 4 1 2 0 441
Petey Halpin, projected: 65 157 143 32 4 1 3 46 8 4 1 2 0 460
Austin Hedges, actual: 67 209 184 47 7 0 5 69 18 4 2 1 0 647
Austin Hedges, projected: 67 206 185 35 5 0 6 59 13 4 2 2 0 389
Rhys Hoskins, actual: 95 317 263 47 13 0 13 99 47 0 4 3 0 672
Rhys Hoskins, projected: 95 313 265 62 15 1 15 124 41 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: 128 534 451 124 17 2 2 151 71 4 3 4 1 836
Steven Kwan, projected: 128 527 465 130 21 3 6 177 52 2 3 4 0 814
Nathaniel Lowe, actual: 22 88 79 18 4 0 3 31 5 0 4 0 0 745
Nathaniel Lowe, projected: 22 87 77 20 4 0 3 33 9 0 0 0 0 812
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 0 704
Ángel Martínez, actual: 95 345 321 80 18 1 14 142 11 6 1 6 0 610
Ángel Martínez, projected: 95 340 313 73 16 1 10 120 17 4 2 4 0 541
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: 104 451 386 94 24 0 11 151 56 0 6 2 1 841
José Ramírez, projected: 104 445 392 109 26 3 18 195 45 1 4 3 0 995
Brayan Rocchio, actual: 132 512 463 114 19 2 10 167 32 4 4 9 0 617
Brayan Rocchio, projected: 132 505 451 104 22 1 8 153 36 4 5 9 0 531
Daniel Schneemann, actual: 83 276 252 52 11 0 6 81 24 0 0 0 0 467
Daniel Schneemann, projected: 83 272 244 51 12 1 7 85 26 0 1 1 0 550
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: 138 5207 4600 1089 209 13 130 1714 498 24 39 44 2 579
Guardians, Projected: 138 5137 4573 1103 227 18 140 1783 454 20 38 49 0 573


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.241
Slugging Average: 0.373 0.390
Walks (per PA): 0.096 0.088
SOs (per PA): 0.213 0.212
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.314
Power Factor: 1.574 1.617
OPS: 0.687 0.704
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 579
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 573
Actual Runs Scored: 563

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