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Tigers 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Tigers Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 September 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each player 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 Plate Appearances to his career Plate Appearances, 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 Plate Appearances. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career PAs and 250 PAs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had, 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 Plate Appearances 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 PAs the man or team will have in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a team with an abysmal .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they send to 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, that team, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a team with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half its batters make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, they 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 PAs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—PAs 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 on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the team’s total Plate Appearances; 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 PA total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team PAs to actual PAs (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 batting, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.999)

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 TOP 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 pitching numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Javier Báez, actual: 47 169 161 40 10 1 2 58 5 0 1 2 0 437
Javier Báez, projected: 47 169 158 40 8 1 6 68 7 0 1 2 0 672
Brett Callahan, actual: 13 36 32 9 1 1 1 15 2 0 1 1 0 1185
Brett Callahan, projected: 13 36 32 9 1 1 1 15 2 0 1 1 0 1184
Kerry Carpenter, actual: 81 259 231 48 5 2 13 96 18 0 3 5 2 690
Kerry Carpenter, projected: 81 259 236 61 10 2 13 116 16 0 2 4 1 847
Max Clark, actual: 29 112 101 24 4 3 2 40 7 2 0 2 0 620
Max Clark, projected: 29 112 101 24 4 3 2 40 7 2 0 2 0 595
Trei Cruz, actual: 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trei Cruz, projected: 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dillon Dingler, actual: 128 539 487 121 24 2 26 227 32 0 3 15 2 813
Dillon Dingler, projected: 128 538 495 126 25 3 20 215 29 0 2 12 1 742
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Riley Greene, actual: 118 496 426 115 25 1 16 190 61 0 5 4 0 926
Riley Greene, projected: 118 495 442 117 23 3 18 200 47 0 3 3 0 836
Jahmai Jones, actual: 57 105 95 13 2 0 2 21 10 0 0 0 0 235
Jahmai Jones, projected: 57 105 93 22 5 1 3 38 10 0 0 2 0 716
Corey Julks, actual: 4 7 7 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 592
Corey Julks, projected: 4 7 6 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 473
Jace Jung, actual: 3 8 6 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 564
Jace Jung, projected: 3 8 7 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 221
Colt Keith, actual: 126 389 354 91 16 4 9 142 29 0 2 4 0 689
Colt Keith, projected: 126 389 353 91 15 3 10 140 31 0 2 2 0 715
Hao-Yu Lee, actual: 93 268 248 67 13 1 8 106 17 1 2 0 0 732
Hao-Yu Lee, projected: 93 268 248 67 13 1 8 106 17 1 2 0 0 709
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ben Malgeri, actual: 39 88 74 17 2 0 3 28 12 0 1 1 0 801
Ben Malgeri, projected: 39 88 74 17 2 0 3 28 12 0 1 1 0 801
Kevin McGonigle, actual: 134 601 514 141 24 3 14 213 81 0 3 3 0 1001
Kevin McGonigle, projected: 134 600 513 141 24 3 14 213 81 0 3 3 0 990
Zach McKinstry, actual: 111 377 332 71 15 3 4 104 37 3 2 3 0 563
Zach McKinstry, projected: 111 377 337 77 16 5 7 124 32 2 3 3 0 613
Parker Meadows, actual: 12 39 36 9 1 1 0 12 2 0 0 1 0 697
Parker Meadows, projected: 12 39 35 8 1 1 1 13 4 0 0 0 0 746
James Outman, actual: 45 100 93 17 0 1 5 34 5 0 0 2 0 510
James Outman, projected: 45 100 87 18 3 1 4 33 10 0 0 2 0 686
John Peck, actual: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 335
John Peck, projected: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Wenceel Pérez, actual: 53 175 161 29 4 1 7 56 14 0 0 0 0 478
Wenceel Pérez, projected: 53 175 159 37 7 2 5 63 14 0 1 1 0 611
Jake Rogers, actual: 34 110 93 15 2 1 3 28 13 1 2 1 0 502
Jake Rogers, projected: 34 110 98 19 4 1 4 37 10 1 1 1 0 531
Zack Short, actual: 23 46 36 6 2 0 0 8 7 0 2 1 0 524
Zack Short, projected: 23 46 39 7 1 0 1 11 5 1 1 0 0 424
Spencer Torkelson, actual: 136 528 458 101 24 0 20 185 58 0 4 7 1 678
Spencer Torkelson, projected: 136 527 464 105 24 1 20 190 53 0 3 6 0 675
Gleyber Torres, actual: 80 353 301 79 12 0 8 115 47 0 2 3 0 853
Gleyber Torres, projected: 80 353 312 82 14 0 12 134 35 1 3 2 0 791
Eduardo Valencia, actual: 27 79 77 24 7 0 6 49 1 0 0 1 0 1066
Eduardo Valencia, projected: 27 79 77 24 7 0 6 49 1 0 0 1 0 1015
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Matt Vierling, actual: 92 291 266 55 13 3 5 89 19 1 5 0 0 444
Matt Vierling, projected: 92 291 264 66 12 2 6 101 21 0 3 2 0 634
Gage Workman, actual: 16 38 38 6 3 0 2 15 0 0 0 0 0 381
Gage Workman, projected: 16 38 37 7 3 0 1 14 1 0 0 0 0 301
Tigers, Actual: 138 5222 4636 1101 210 28 156 1835 479 8 38 56 5 602
Tigers, Projected: 138 5218 4676 1168 222 34 165 1952 446 8 32 50 2 628


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.417
Walks (per PA): 0.092 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.227 0.234
On-Base Average: 0.314 0.320
Power Factor: 1.667 1.671
OPS: 0.710 0.737
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 602
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 628
Actual Runs Scored: 599

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