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Tigers 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Tigers 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 1)

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
Drew Anderson, actual: 31 227 202 50 11 0 8 85 20 27 158 2 1 2 0 1 5 741
Drew Anderson, projected: 31 227 203 54 12 0 6 85 19 32 158 1 1 3 1 2 7 794
Beau Brieske, actual: 4 21 17 6 0 0 2 12 4 6 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 1545
Beau Brieske, projected: 4 21 19 5 1 0 1 8 2 3 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Enmanuel De Jesus, actual: 22 134 119 27 2 3 1 38 13 17 95 2 0 0 0 0 1 535
Enmanuel De Jesus, projected: 22 134 116 29 4 2 1 40 14 20 95 2 0 2 0 0 2 633
Kyle Finnegan, actual: 37 165 139 33 8 1 3 52 25 9 118 1 0 0 0 0 7 636
Kyle Finnegan, projected: 37 165 147 35 5 1 5 57 16 18 118 1 1 1 1 2 5 670
Jack Flaherty, actual: 16 326 278 71 19 3 8 120 37 47 212 2 4 5 2 1 3 930
Jack Flaherty, projected: 16 326 291 67 12 1 10 113 28 36 212 1 2 4 2 1 2 709
Brenan Hanifee, actual: 14 59 53 15 3 0 2 24 4 5 41 1 0 1 0 0 0 757
Brenan Hanifee, projected: 14 59 55 15 3 1 1 22 3 6 41 0 0 0 1 0 1 764
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Tyler Holton, actual: 37 170 157 45 8 1 5 70 10 19 119 1 0 2 1 0 0 760
Tyler Holton, projected: 37 170 158 33 5 0 5 54 9 14 119 1 1 1 1 0 1 495
Brant Hurter, actual: 21 101 86 15 5 0 1 23 12 9 76 1 1 1 2 1 2 405
Brant Hurter, projected: 21 101 89 19 3 0 2 28 8 9 76 1 1 2 1 1 2 517
Kenley Jansen, actual: 23 85 73 14 0 0 5 29 11 13 61 0 1 0 0 0 7 780
Kenley Jansen, projected: 23 85 77 14 2 0 2 23 7 7 61 0 0 1 0 0 3 458
Ty Madden, actual: 7 82 76 16 2 0 2 24 5 7 60 0 0 1 2 0 1 537
Ty Madden, projected: 7 82 75 18 3 0 2 27 6 9 60 0 0 1 1 0 2 648
Troy Melton, actual: 7 167 154 25 5 0 7 51 10 10 132 0 1 2 0 0 1 425
Troy Melton, projected: 7 167 152 27 4 0 7 52 12 12 132 0 1 1 1 0 2 463
Casey Mize, actual: 12 253 236 49 19 0 4 80 14 19 195 0 2 1 2 0 5 425
Casey Mize, projected: 12 253 232 59 11 2 8 98 16 29 195 0 2 3 3 0 4 675
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Keider Montero, actual: 17 355 330 70 15 2 9 116 19 35 269 2 2 2 1 1 1 470
Keider Montero, projected: 17 355 326 81 13 2 14 138 25 41 269 1 1 2 1 0 3 648
Jake Rogers, actual: 2 6 6 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 710
Jake Rogers, projected: 2 6 6 2 1 0 0 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1620
Connor Seabold, actual: 11 69 60 17 3 0 2 26 5 6 47 0 3 1 0 0 1 912
Connor Seabold, projected: 11 69 61 20 4 1 3 34 6 12 47 0 1 1 0 0 0 1178
Tarik Skubal, actual: 11 254 241 52 11 1 9 92 8 26 197 1 1 3 4 0 4 504
Tarik Skubal, projected: 11 254 236 51 10 1 8 86 14 24 197 1 1 2 2 0 2 501
Burch Smith, actual: 13 73 65 18 6 0 2 30 7 8 51 1 0 0 0 0 1 748
Burch Smith, projected: 13 73 65 18 4 0 3 30 7 11 51 0 0 0 0 0 1 860
Drew Sommers, actual: 13 37 31 6 1 0 1 10 4 3 26 1 0 1 0 1 0 511
Drew Sommers, projected: 13 37 30 9 1 1 1 15 5 6 26 1 0 1 0 1 0 960
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Framber Valdez, actual: 17 417 373 94 16 1 10 142 34 48 287 0 2 8 2 0 13 748
Framber Valdez, projected: 17 417 371 86 15 1 8 128 36 42 287 1 3 6 3 0 8 619
Ricky Vanasco, actual: 5 40 34 14 4 0 2 24 6 12 19 0 0 0 2 0 0 2902
Ricky Vanasco, projected: 5 40 36 12 4 0 1 20 4 11 19 0 0 0 1 0 0 1912
Justin Verlander, actual: 1 19 17 6 1 1 1 12 2 5 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1854
Justin Verlander, projected: 1 19 17 4 1 0 0 6 1 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
Will Vest, actual: 27 116 102 28 5 0 2 39 10 22 80 1 1 2 1 0 1 724
Will Vest, projected: 27 116 104 26 4 0 2 36 9 13 80 1 1 1 1 0 1 630
Jacob Waguespack, actual: 7 37 33 5 0 0 2 11 2 2 29 1 0 1 0 0 0 452
Jacob Waguespack, projected: 7 37 33 9 2 0 1 14 4 5 29 0 0 1 1 0 1 787
Tigers, Actual: 87 3213 2882 678 144 13 88 1112 262 355 2300 17 19 33 19 5 53 346
Tigers, Projected: 87 3213 2899 693 124 13 91 1117 252 363 2300 12 16 33 21 7 47 349


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.235 0.239
Slugging Average: 0.386 0.385
Walks (per PA): 0.082 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.224 0.227
On-Base Average: 0.304 0.306
Power Factor: 1.640 1.612
OPS: 0.690 0.691
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 346
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 349
Actual Runs Scored: 355

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