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Guardians 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 31 August 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: 18 82 72 19 2 0 2 27 8 7 56 0 0 2 0 0 2 746
Franco Aleman, projected: 18 81 71 19 2 0 2 27 8 7 56 0 0 2 0 0 2 756
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: 6 67 60 17 4 0 3 30 4 9 43 0 1 2 0 0 0 1080
Logan Allen, projected: 6 66 59 16 3 0 2 27 6 8 43 0 0 1 1 0 0 810
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: 28 664 606 142 22 1 26 244 46 74 487 1 5 6 3 0 6 635
Tanner Bibee, projected: 28 657 599 141 27 2 21 237 46 69 487 1 4 7 5 0 9 619
Connor Brogdon, actual: 15 67 61 14 3 0 5 32 3 12 46 3 0 0 3 0 2 977
Connor Brogdon, projected: 15 66 59 14 3 0 3 27 6 9 46 0 1 0 1 1 1 821
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: 28 589 511 128 26 2 15 203 70 66 409 2 3 3 2 0 15 739
Joey Cantillo, projected: 28 583 513 122 28 1 16 199 64 64 409 1 3 2 4 0 10 694
Slade Cecconi, actual: 23 488 441 128 26 0 17 205 37 68 330 1 6 3 6 1 8 929
Slade Cecconi, projected: 23 483 445 121 27 1 20 211 29 67 330 1 4 4 2 1 6 838
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 78 18 3 0 3 32 6 10 59 0 0 1 0 0 1 581
Daniel Espino, actual: 6 27 23 5 1 0 1 9 4 3 18 0 0 0 0 0 2 867
Daniel Espino, projected: 6 27 23 5 1 0 1 9 4 3 18 0 0 0 0 0 2 864
Matt Festa, actual: 58 248 224 58 15 0 6 91 16 27 172 0 2 6 2 0 4 748
Matt Festa, projected: 58 246 216 51 11 2 7 86 21 30 172 2 2 4 1 1 7 707
Hunter Gaddis, actual: 54 202 179 42 4 0 5 61 19 16 139 0 2 2 1 0 2 685
Hunter Gaddis, projected: 54 200 181 41 8 1 6 70 15 19 139 0 2 2 0 1 2 627
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: 5 106 96 25 8 1 4 47 9 13 75 0 1 0 1 0 0 805
Foster Griffin, projected: 5 105 96 22 5 0 4 38 7 11 75 1 0 1 1 0 1 648
Austin Hedges, actual: 3 12 12 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 710
Austin Hedges, projected: 3 12 11 4 1 0 0 5 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 594
Tim Herrin, actual: 58 203 167 36 6 2 5 61 24 18 146 1 6 5 0 3 8 668
Tim Herrin, projected: 58 201 169 37 7 1 4 56 24 20 146 1 3 5 1 2 6 620
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: 53 218 187 34 6 1 1 45 19 18 157 1 1 10 1 1 4 422
Colin Holderman, projected: 53 216 185 43 8 1 4 63 22 24 157 1 3 5 1 1 6 666
Parker Messick, actual: 27 637 586 121 26 4 14 197 43 48 483 3 3 2 2 2 2 449
Parker Messick, projected: 27 631 586 131 26 3 14 206 39 47 483 2 2 2 2 2 2 474
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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
Erik Sabrowski, actual: 51 169 140 25 5 2 3 43 26 16 118 0 2 1 0 2 3 588
Erik Sabrowski, projected: 51 167 139 22 5 1 2 37 25 12 118 0 1 2 0 1 5 461
Cade Smith, actual: 58 251 222 45 10 0 5 70 21 20 183 1 4 3 3 1 3 532
Cade Smith, projected: 58 248 226 45 15 1 3 70 17 20 183 1 2 3 1 1 2 433
Gavin Williams, actual: 27 632 577 126 23 1 27 232 49 72 468 3 0 3 1 0 12 605
Gavin Williams, projected: 27 626 555 122 25 2 20 212 62 65 468 2 2 4 3 0 9 606
Craig Yoho, actual: 11 54 45 13 5 0 3 27 6 9 34 2 0 1 0 0 1 1183
Craig Yoho, projected: 11 53 44 9 2 0 2 18 7 7 34 1 0 1 0 0 0 707
Guardians, Actual: 137 5135 4571 1080 212 15 154 1784 450 559 3647 19 38 57 27 12 91 572
Guardians, Projected: 137 5084 4542 1052 222 17 143 1741 443 533 3647 14 30 51 25 12 76 538


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.236 0.232
Slugging Average: 0.390 0.383
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.248 0.249
On-Base Average: 0.310 0.305
Power Factor: 1.652 1.655
OPS: 0.700 0.688
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 572
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 538
Actual Runs Scored: 559

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