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Guardians 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Pitching

Through games of Wednesday, 1 July 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 0.996)

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: 2 10 9 3 0 0 1 6 1 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 766
Franco Aleman, projected: 2 10 9 3 0 0 1 6 1 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 729
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 7 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 1013
Logan Allen, actual: 1 19 18 5 1 0 0 6 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 757
Logan Allen, projected: 1 19 17 5 1 0 1 8 2 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Shawn Armstrong, actual: 28 107 92 22 4 0 4 38 12 14 74 1 0 2 0 1 8 797
Shawn Armstrong, projected: 28 107 95 23 5 0 3 37 9 12 74 0 1 2 1 0 2 729
Tanner Bibee, actual: 18 411 377 85 12 0 17 148 29 44 307 0 3 2 2 0 4 595
Tanner Bibee, projected: 18 410 373 87 17 1 13 147 29 42 307 1 3 4 3 0 6 603
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 67 60 14 3 0 3 27 6 9 46 0 1 0 1 1 1 810
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: 18 383 334 80 17 0 12 133 44 43 273 2 1 2 0 0 12 677
Joey Cantillo, projected: 18 382 338 78 19 0 11 130 41 42 273 1 2 1 2 0 7 657
Slade Cecconi, actual: 17 387 349 94 15 0 12 145 29 44 271 1 5 3 3 1 8 770
Slade Cecconi, projected: 17 386 355 94 20 1 16 164 23 50 271 1 3 3 1 1 5 781
Will Dion, actual: 6 55 51 18 3 0 2 27 3 11 34 0 0 1 0 0 2 1304
Will Dion, projected: 6 55 51 18 3 0 2 27 3 11 34 0 0 1 0 0 2 1296
Daniel Espino, actual: 4 16 14 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1237
Daniel Espino, projected: 4 16 14 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1256
Matt Festa, actual: 37 153 139 34 8 0 6 60 10 16 107 0 1 3 1 0 2 767
Matt Festa, projected: 37 152 134 31 7 1 5 54 13 19 107 1 1 2 1 1 4 718
Hunter Gaddis, actual: 29 110 99 28 2 0 3 39 9 9 72 0 2 0 1 0 1 925
Hunter Gaddis, projected: 29 110 100 23 5 1 3 39 8 11 72 0 1 1 0 0 1 682
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Austin Hedges, actual: 2 8 8 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2245
Austin Hedges, projected: 2 8 7 3 1 0 0 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1377
Tim Herrin, actual: 37 129 99 22 2 2 3 37 19 11 88 1 6 4 0 3 7 861
Tim Herrin, projected: 37 129 107 23 4 0 2 35 16 13 88 1 2 3 1 1 4 626
Codi Heuer, actual: 7 40 34 10 2 1 0 14 5 5 24 0 0 1 1 0 6 1464
Codi Heuer, projected: 7 40 35 8 1 0 1 13 4 4 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 671
Colin Holderman, actual: 30 122 109 16 1 1 1 22 10 7 94 0 0 3 1 0 2 291
Colin Holderman, projected: 30 122 105 25 4 0 2 36 12 13 94 1 1 2 0 1 3 545
Parker Messick, actual: 17 400 365 78 15 4 9 128 29 34 303 2 3 1 1 2 1 473
Parker Messick, projected: 17 399 370 87 16 3 9 136 25 32 303 1 2 1 1 1 1 505
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 97 78 17 4 0 2 27 16 13 62 0 0 3 0 0 1 800
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Erik Sabrowski, actual: 30 100 83 14 5 0 2 25 15 10 72 0 2 0 0 0 2 538
Erik Sabrowski, projected: 30 100 83 13 4 0 1 21 15 7 72 0 1 1 0 0 3 421
Cade Smith, actual: 36 160 146 36 9 0 3 54 10 16 115 0 3 1 2 1 2 633
Cade Smith, projected: 36 159 146 30 10 0 2 47 10 13 115 0 1 2 1 1 1 437
Gavin Williams, actual: 17 414 377 85 20 1 15 152 34 46 305 1 0 2 1 0 9 608
Gavin Williams, projected: 17 413 365 81 18 2 12 139 43 42 305 1 2 3 2 0 6 619
Guardians, Actual: 87 3233 2883 685 129 9 100 1132 284 353 2307 11 26 29 16 9 69 363
Guardians, Projected: 87 3226 2883 678 145 9 92 1124 281 347 2307 8 21 29 14 7 48 347


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.235
Slugging Average: 0.393 0.390
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.245 0.245
On-Base Average: 0.310 0.307
Power Factor: 1.653 1.658
OPS: 0.702 0.697
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 363
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 347
Actual Runs Scored: 353

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