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Guardians 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Pitching

Through games of Tuesday, 22 September 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each pitcher 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 BFPs (Batters Faced Pitcher, the equivalent of Plate Appearances for batters) to his career BFPs, 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 BFPs. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career BFPs and 250 BFPs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had yielded, 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 BFPs 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 BFPs the man or team will see in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a staff with a great .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they see at 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, the batters, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a staff with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half the batters it faces make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, the batters 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 BFPs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—BFPs 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 behind him on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the staff’s total BFPs; 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 BFP total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team BFPs to actual BFPs (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 pitching, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.99)

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 TPP 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 batting numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Franco Aleman, actual: 21 103 89 25 2 0 4 39 10 12 67 0 0 4 0 0 2 969
Franco Aleman, projected: 21 102 88 25 2 0 4 39 10 12 67 0 0 4 0 0 2 980
Kolby Allard, actual: 4 45 41 16 5 0 2 27 3 10 26 0 0 1 0 1 0 1666
Kolby Allard, projected: 4 45 41 11 2 0 2 19 3 6 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Logan Allen, actual: 7 81 72 23 4 0 3 36 6 14 50 0 1 2 0 0 0 1211
Logan Allen, projected: 7 80 71 20 4 0 3 32 7 10 50 0 1 1 1 0 1 972
Shawn Armstrong, actual: 38 146 123 29 6 0 4 47 19 19 99 1 1 2 1 1 8 803
Shawn Armstrong, projected: 38 145 129 31 7 1 4 50 12 16 99 0 1 2 1 1 3 729
Tanner Bibee, actual: 32 755 689 168 30 1 29 287 54 92 546 1 5 6 3 0 7 675
Tanner Bibee, projected: 32 747 681 162 32 3 24 272 52 81 546 2 5 8 5 0 10 643
Connor Brogdon, actual: 16 70 63 15 3 0 5 33 3 12 48 3 0 1 3 0 2 978
Connor Brogdon, projected: 16 69 62 15 3 0 3 28 6 9 48 0 1 0 1 1 1 780
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Joey Cantillo, actual: 32 668 578 143 30 2 17 228 79 79 462 2 3 6 2 0 16 739
Joey Cantillo, projected: 32 661 581 137 32 1 18 224 73 75 462 1 3 3 4 0 11 694
Slade Cecconi, actual: 27 525 476 134 26 0 19 217 39 72 360 1 6 3 6 1 10 881
Slade Cecconi, projected: 27 520 479 129 29 1 22 225 31 71 360 1 4 4 2 1 7 822
Will Dion, actual: 12 85 81 24 3 0 4 39 3 14 59 0 0 1 0 0 2 874
Will Dion, projected: 12 84 76 17 4 0 3 31 7 11 59 0 0 0 0 0 1 608
Daniel Espino, actual: 12 59 52 12 1 0 3 22 7 7 40 0 0 0 0 0 3 874
Daniel Espino, projected: 12 58 51 12 1 0 3 22 7 7 40 0 0 0 0 0 3 878
Matt Festa, actual: 64 281 252 64 17 0 6 99 20 30 195 0 3 6 2 0 4 726
Matt Festa, projected: 64 278 245 58 13 2 8 97 24 34 195 2 2 5 1 1 7 709
Hunter Gaddis, actual: 66 248 220 51 6 0 6 75 21 18 175 1 3 3 1 0 2 626
Hunter Gaddis, projected: 66 245 222 50 10 1 7 85 18 23 175 1 2 3 0 1 3 596
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Foster Griffin, actual: 8 169 150 45 12 2 4 73 15 26 112 0 2 2 1 0 0 982
Foster Griffin, projected: 8 167 151 37 8 0 5 62 11 19 112 1 1 3 2 0 2 729
Austin Hedges, actual: 4 20 20 7 0 0 0 7 0 3 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 809
Austin Hedges, projected: 4 20 18 6 1 0 0 8 1 2 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 689
Carlos Hernández, actual: 2 14 13 5 1 0 1 9 1 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1487
Carlos Hernández, projected: 2 14 12 3 1 0 0 5 2 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 729
Tim Herrin, actual: 65 232 192 42 9 2 5 70 28 21 165 1 6 5 0 3 8 672
Tim Herrin, projected: 65 230 193 42 9 1 4 65 27 23 165 1 3 5 1 2 7 601
Codi Heuer, actual: 8 46 39 12 2 1 0 16 5 5 29 0 1 1 1 0 6 1318
Codi Heuer, projected: 8 46 40 10 2 0 1 15 4 5 29 0 0 0 1 0 1 709
Colin Holderman, actual: 54 222 189 35 6 1 1 46 20 18 158 1 2 10 2 1 4 465
Colin Holderman, projected: 54 220 188 44 8 1 4 64 22 24 158 1 3 5 1 1 6 669
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Parker Messick, actual: 31 731 673 143 31 5 17 235 48 56 550 3 3 4 2 2 2 477
Parker Messick, projected: 31 724 672 153 31 4 17 242 44 55 550 2 2 3 2 2 2 496
Peyton Pallette, actual: 16 97 78 17 4 0 2 27 16 13 62 0 0 3 0 0 1 804
Peyton Pallette, projected: 16 96 77 17 4 0 2 27 16 13 62 0 0 3 0 0 1 810
Austin Peterson, actual: 1 8 8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 129
Austin Peterson, projected: 1 8 8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 162
Erik Sabrowski, actual: 58 195 159 25 5 2 3 43 30 17 139 1 3 2 0 2 3 502
Erik Sabrowski, projected: 58 193 159 24 5 1 3 39 29 13 139 1 2 3 0 1 5 452
Cade Smith, actual: 67 290 258 48 10 0 5 73 23 20 217 1 4 4 3 1 3 439
Cade Smith, projected: 67 287 261 50 16 1 3 78 19 22 217 1 2 4 1 1 3 389
Gavin Williams, actual: 31 728 662 139 25 1 27 247 57 77 543 3 0 6 1 0 14 552
Gavin Williams, projected: 31 721 640 139 28 2 22 238 71 73 543 2 2 5 3 0 11 580
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Craig Yoho, actual: 18 82 69 17 5 0 3 31 10 12 54 2 0 1 0 0 2 870
Craig Yoho, projected: 18 81 67 14 3 0 3 25 11 10 54 1 0 2 0 0 1 702
Guardians, Actual: 157 5900 5246 1240 243 17 170 2027 517 649 4184 21 43 73 28 12 100 651
Guardians, Projected: 157 5841 5212 1207 255 19 165 1993 507 616 4184 17 34 63 26 12 88 618


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.236 0.232
Slugging Average: 0.386 0.382
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.252 0.251
On-Base Average: 0.311 0.306
Power Factor: 1.635 1.651
OPS: 0.698 0.688
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 651
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 618
Actual Runs Scored: 649

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