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Guardians 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Pitching

Through games of Friday, 15 May 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 0.989)

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 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 44 41 11 2 0 2 19 3 6 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Shawn Armstrong, actual: 12 47 39 8 2 0 2 16 7 5 32 0 0 1 0 0 4 857
Shawn Armstrong, projected: 12 46 41 10 2 0 1 16 4 5 32 0 0 1 0 0 1 662
Tanner Bibee, actual: 10 222 200 50 9 0 7 80 20 24 156 0 1 1 1 0 4 716
Tanner Bibee, projected: 10 219 200 47 10 1 7 79 16 23 156 0 1 2 2 0 3 664
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
Joey Cantillo, actual: 9 188 165 40 10 0 5 65 20 19 136 1 1 1 0 0 7 641
Joey Cantillo, projected: 9 186 165 38 10 0 5 63 19 20 136 0 1 0 1 0 3 630
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Slade Cecconi, actual: 9 205 182 54 9 0 8 87 17 30 135 0 3 3 0 0 5 1025
Slade Cecconi, projected: 9 203 187 50 11 1 9 89 12 28 135 0 2 2 0 0 3 882
Matt Festa, actual: 20 89 80 19 5 0 4 36 5 12 61 0 1 3 1 0 1 854
Matt Festa, projected: 20 88 77 18 4 1 3 31 8 11 61 1 1 2 0 0 3 770
Hunter Gaddis, actual: 12 47 40 14 2 0 2 22 5 7 28 0 2 0 0 0 1 1560
Hunter Gaddis, projected: 12 46 42 10 2 0 2 17 3 5 28 0 0 1 0 0 1 824
Austin Hedges, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austin Hedges, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tim Herrin, actual: 18 66 51 13 2 1 0 17 9 3 43 1 4 1 0 3 6 968
Tim Herrin, projected: 18 65 55 12 2 0 1 18 8 6 43 0 1 1 0 1 2 630
Colin Holderman, actual: 10 56 52 7 0 0 1 10 4 4 44 0 0 0 1 0 1 283
Colin Holderman, projected: 10 55 48 11 2 0 1 17 6 6 44 0 1 1 0 0 2 616
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: 9 205 189 39 4 1 5 60 14 14 161 1 0 1 0 0 0 382
Parker Messick, projected: 9 203 191 47 6 1 5 68 11 14 161 1 0 1 1 0 0 468
Peyton Pallette, actual: 14 86 72 17 4 0 2 27 12 13 56 0 0 2 0 0 1 809
Peyton Pallette, projected: 14 85 71 17 4 0 2 27 12 13 56 0 0 2 0 0 1 822
Erik Sabrowski, actual: 22 75 64 7 2 0 1 12 10 4 58 0 1 0 0 0 2 293
Erik Sabrowski, projected: 22 74 62 8 2 0 1 13 11 4 58 0 0 1 0 0 3 331
Cade Smith, actual: 20 83 78 19 7 0 1 29 4 8 62 0 1 0 1 1 1 511
Cade Smith, projected: 20 82 76 15 6 0 1 24 5 7 62 0 0 1 0 0 1 397
Gavin Williams, actual: 9 225 202 43 10 1 8 79 22 24 166 0 0 1 0 0 4 587
Gavin Williams, projected: 9 222 196 43 9 1 6 73 24 22 166 0 1 2 1 0 3 612
Guardians, Actual: 46 1717 1526 363 74 3 54 605 156 190 1219 6 14 15 7 5 39 196
Guardians, Projected: 46 1695 1521 354 75 5 50 587 149 180 1219 2 9 17 6 2 27 183


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.233
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.386
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.088
SOs (per PA): 0.247 0.250
On-Base Average: 0.312 0.307
Power Factor: 1.667 1.658
OPS: 0.709 0.693
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 196
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 183
Actual Runs Scored: 190

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