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Tigers 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Tigers Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 10 August 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 0.996)

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 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: 32 119 114 32 6 0 2 44 3 0 1 1 0 587
Javier Báez, projected: 32 119 111 28 5 1 4 48 5 0 1 1 0 652
Kerry Carpenter, actual: 81 259 231 48 5 2 13 96 18 0 3 5 2 690
Kerry Carpenter, projected: 81 258 235 61 10 2 13 116 16 0 2 4 1 841
Max Clark, actual: 9 42 37 11 2 1 1 18 4 0 0 1 0 1152
Max Clark, projected: 9 42 37 11 2 1 1 18 4 0 0 1 0 1153
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: 109 462 415 113 23 2 26 218 29 0 3 13 2 979
Dillon Dingler, projected: 109 460 422 112 22 3 18 194 25 0 2 10 1 802
Riley Greene, actual: 116 491 422 115 25 1 16 190 61 0 5 3 0 939
Riley Greene, projected: 116 489 436 116 23 3 18 198 46 0 3 3 0 842
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jahmai Jones, actual: 57 105 95 13 2 0 2 21 10 0 0 0 0 235
Jahmai Jones, projected: 57 105 94 21 6 1 3 37 9 0 0 2 0 652
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: 108 339 312 84 14 4 8 130 22 0 2 3 0 724
Colt Keith, projected: 108 338 308 80 13 2 8 123 26 0 2 2 0 705
Hao-Yu Lee, actual: 75 208 195 52 10 1 6 82 10 1 2 0 0 665
Hao-Yu Lee, projected: 75 207 194 52 10 1 6 82 10 1 2 0 0 658
Ben Malgeri, actual: 23 52 42 12 2 0 1 17 9 0 1 0 0 1153
Ben Malgeri, projected: 23 52 42 12 2 0 1 17 9 0 1 0 0 1068
Kevin McGonigle, actual: 114 515 437 125 20 3 12 187 73 0 2 3 0 1087
Kevin McGonigle, projected: 114 513 435 125 20 3 12 186 73 0 2 3 0 1077
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Zach McKinstry, actual: 93 322 283 63 13 3 4 94 32 3 2 2 0 623
Zach McKinstry, projected: 93 321 287 66 14 4 6 107 27 1 2 3 0 620
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: 43 98 92 17 0 1 5 34 5 0 0 1 0 503
James Outman, projected: 43 98 85 18 3 1 4 32 10 0 0 2 0 688
Wenceel Pérez, actual: 53 175 161 29 4 1 7 56 14 0 0 0 0 478
Wenceel Pérez, projected: 53 174 159 37 7 2 5 63 14 0 1 1 0 614
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 9 1 1 1 0 532
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Spencer Torkelson, actual: 117 464 405 92 19 0 20 171 49 0 4 5 1 710
Spencer Torkelson, projected: 117 462 407 92 21 1 18 168 46 0 3 5 0 680
Gleyber Torres, actual: 61 271 226 58 8 0 7 87 40 0 2 3 0 899
Gleyber Torres, projected: 61 270 238 63 11 0 10 103 27 0 2 2 0 812
Eduardo Valencia, actual: 15 43 41 16 5 0 4 33 1 0 0 1 0 1848
Eduardo Valencia, projected: 15 43 41 16 5 0 4 33 1 0 0 1 0 1848
Matt Vierling, actual: 92 291 266 55 13 3 5 89 19 1 5 0 0 444
Matt Vierling, projected: 92 290 263 66 12 2 6 101 21 0 3 2 0 636
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: 118 4502 3988 972 179 24 144 1631 423 6 36 44 5 544
Tigers, Projected: 118 4487 4015 1018 195 29 144 1703 389 4 28 43 2 551


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.254
Slugging Average: 0.409 0.424
Walks (per PA): 0.094 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.226 0.235
On-Base Average: 0.320 0.324
Power Factor: 1.678 1.673
OPS: 0.729 0.748
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 544
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 551
Actual Runs Scored: 539

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