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Guardians 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Guardians Projected Pitching

Through games of Sunday, 27 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: 41 154 131 29 6 0 4 47 19 19 106 1 1 2 2 1 8 741
Shawn Armstrong, projected: 41 152 136 32 7 1 4 52 12 17 106 0 1 2 1 1 3 691
Tanner Bibee, actual: 33 780 712 175 34 1 29 298 55 95 564 1 5 7 3 0 8 675
Tanner Bibee, projected: 33 772 703 168 34 3 25 281 54 84 564 2 5 8 5 0 11 643
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: 33 687 595 144 30 2 17 229 81 79 477 2 3 6 3 0 16 717
Joey Cantillo, projected: 33 680 597 140 32 1 18 228 75 76 477 1 3 3 5 0 11 682
Slade Cecconi, actual: 28 528 479 134 26 0 19 217 39 72 363 1 6 3 6 1 10 869
Slade Cecconi, projected: 28 522 481 130 29 1 22 226 32 71 363 1 4 4 2 1 7 816
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 18 4 0 3 31 7 10 59 0 0 0 0 0 1 621
Daniel Espino, actual: 14 65 58 12 1 0 3 22 7 7 46 0 0 0 0 0 3 708
Daniel Espino, projected: 14 64 57 12 1 0 3 22 7 7 46 0 0 0 0 0 3 717
Matt Festa, actual: 66 289 259 66 17 0 7 104 21 32 200 0 3 6 2 0 5 750
Matt Festa, projected: 66 286 252 59 13 2 8 100 25 35 200 2 3 5 1 1 8 709
Hunter Gaddis, actual: 68 257 228 55 6 0 7 82 22 20 181 1 3 3 1 0 3 665
Hunter Gaddis, projected: 68 254 230 52 11 1 8 89 18 24 181 1 2 3 0 1 3 617
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: 9 197 178 55 12 2 4 83 15 27 130 0 2 2 2 0 0 978
Foster Griffin, projected: 9 195 177 44 9 1 6 72 13 21 130 1 1 3 2 0 2 738
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: 67 240 199 46 9 2 5 74 28 22 170 1 7 5 0 3 10 708
Tim Herrin, projected: 67 237 200 44 9 1 4 67 28 23 170 1 4 5 1 2 7 612
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: 32 747 688 149 32 5 17 242 49 57 559 3 3 4 2 2 2 489
Parker Messick, projected: 32 739 686 158 32 4 17 249 45 56 559 2 2 3 2 2 2 506
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: 2 27 25 4 0 0 2 10 2 2 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 584
Austin Peterson, projected: 2 27 25 4 0 0 2 10 2 2 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 567
Erik Sabrowski, actual: 60 203 166 26 5 2 3 44 31 17 145 1 3 2 0 2 3 490
Erik Sabrowski, projected: 60 201 166 25 5 1 3 41 30 14 145 1 2 3 0 1 5 451
Cade Smith, actual: 69 295 263 48 10 0 5 73 23 20 222 1 4 4 3 1 3 422
Cade Smith, projected: 69 292 266 51 17 1 3 79 19 22 222 1 2 4 1 1 3 385
Gavin Williams, actual: 32 746 675 144 26 1 28 256 61 81 553 4 0 6 1 0 14 570
Gavin Williams, projected: 32 738 654 143 29 2 23 245 74 75 553 2 2 6 3 0 11 597
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: 19 86 73 20 7 0 3 36 10 14 55 2 0 1 0 0 2 1003
Craig Yoho, projected: 19 85 71 15 4 0 3 28 11 12 55 1 0 2 0 0 1 759
Guardians, Actual: 162 6084 5414 1286 251 17 175 2096 530 667 4313 22 44 74 31 12 105 674
Guardians, Projected: 162 6020 5374 1246 263 20 171 2057 523 632 4313 17 36 64 27 12 90 640


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.232
Slugging Average: 0.387 0.383
Walks (per PA): 0.087 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.251 0.251
On-Base Average: 0.312 0.306
Power Factor: 1.630 1.651
OPS: 0.699 0.688
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 674
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 640
Actual Runs Scored: 667

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