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Tigers 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Tigers Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 31 August 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 0.999)

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 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: 45 369 327 79 13 1 13 133 35 40 258 2 1 4 2 1 7 732
Drew Anderson, projected: 45 369 328 85 16 1 11 135 33 47 258 1 1 5 3 2 10 785
Beau Brieske, actual: 8 39 35 9 0 0 3 18 4 7 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 858
Beau Brieske, projected: 8 39 35 8 1 0 1 14 4 5 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 608
Enmanuel De Jesus, actual: 30 178 159 38 4 3 3 57 15 21 127 2 0 2 0 0 1 585
Enmanuel De Jesus, projected: 30 178 156 39 6 3 3 58 16 24 127 2 0 4 0 0 2 670
Yilber Díaz, actual: 2 15 11 3 0 0 1 6 4 4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1346
Yilber Díaz, projected: 2 15 13 4 1 0 0 7 2 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Kyle Finnegan, actual: 56 238 203 53 9 1 8 88 32 20 165 2 0 1 1 0 13 823
Kyle Finnegan, projected: 56 238 211 51 8 1 7 83 23 26 165 1 1 1 1 2 8 697
Jack Flaherty, actual: 19 389 334 80 20 3 11 139 42 52 259 2 4 7 2 1 3 842
Jack Flaherty, projected: 19 389 347 79 15 1 13 134 34 42 259 1 2 5 2 1 3 699
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Brenan Hanifee, actual: 23 93 84 24 4 0 5 43 7 12 64 1 0 1 0 1 2 904
Brenan Hanifee, projected: 23 93 87 23 4 1 2 35 5 10 64 0 0 1 1 1 2 733
Tyler Holton, actual: 59 266 244 65 10 1 8 101 16 26 189 1 0 5 1 0 0 684
Tyler Holton, projected: 59 266 246 52 8 1 8 85 14 22 189 2 1 2 1 1 1 494
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: 40 148 126 22 2 0 7 45 20 17 107 0 2 0 0 1 10 679
Kenley Jansen, projected: 40 148 134 24 4 1 4 41 12 12 107 0 1 1 1 1 5 506
Jackson Jobe, actual: 5 104 90 24 4 1 4 42 10 13 70 0 1 3 1 0 1 939
Jackson Jobe, projected: 5 104 89 22 4 1 3 37 12 11 70 1 1 2 0 0 2 810
Tyler Kinley, actual: 3 11 9 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 194
Tyler Kinley, projected: 3 11 10 2 0 0 0 4 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 270
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Ty Madden, actual: 17 160 145 29 6 0 4 47 13 15 117 0 0 2 2 0 3 529
Ty Madden, projected: 17 160 145 33 7 0 4 51 13 17 117 0 1 2 2 0 4 629
Zach McKinstry, actual: 2 15 9 3 0 0 1 6 5 4 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 3191
Zach McKinstry, projected: 2 15 9 3 0 0 1 6 5 4 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 3159
Troy Melton, actual: 16 382 348 70 17 1 10 119 28 24 291 1 2 3 2 0 1 460
Troy Melton, projected: 16 382 346 69 14 1 12 119 29 26 291 1 2 3 3 0 3 486
Casey Mize, actual: 16 341 315 67 22 1 5 106 19 27 260 2 4 1 3 0 9 453
Casey Mize, projected: 16 341 312 79 15 3 11 133 22 39 260 1 3 3 3 0 7 689
Keider Montero, actual: 28 556 514 107 22 2 14 175 31 54 417 4 2 5 4 2 2 477
Keider Montero, projected: 28 556 511 124 20 2 20 208 38 63 417 2 1 4 2 1 4 625
Tanner Rainey, actual: 6 31 22 3 1 0 0 4 8 3 21 0 0 1 0 0 0 456
Tanner Rainey, projected: 6 31 26 6 1 0 1 10 5 4 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 729
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Jake Rogers, actual: 3 12 10 3 1 0 0 4 1 0 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1107
Jake Rogers, projected: 3 12 10 3 1 0 0 5 1 1 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1134
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
Andrew Sears, actual: 2 28 27 8 3 0 1 14 1 5 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 776
Andrew Sears, projected: 2 28 27 8 3 0 1 14 1 5 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Tarik Skubal, actual: 16 374 353 74 17 1 10 123 14 33 290 2 1 4 4 0 4 442
Tarik Skubal, projected: 16 374 347 75 15 1 11 125 20 35 290 1 2 3 2 0 3 496
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: 33 121 107 24 2 0 2 32 12 12 87 1 0 1 1 2 1 497
Drew Sommers, projected: 33 121 105 27 3 1 3 39 13 16 87 1 0 2 1 2 1 692
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: 27 664 589 154 26 2 15 229 57 81 452 1 4 13 4 0 13 777
Framber Valdez, projected: 27 664 591 137 23 2 13 205 58 68 452 2 4 9 5 0 12 624
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: 25 126 110 17 0 0 5 32 11 10 97 3 1 1 2 0 2 448
Jacob Waguespack, projected: 25 126 111 28 5 0 4 46 12 17 97 1 0 2 2 0 3 706
Tigers, Actual: 137 5078 4535 1055 207 18 140 1718 429 542 3634 27 27 60 34 9 78 539
Tigers, Projected: 137 5078 4568 1080 194 21 144 1748 408 556 3634 19 23 55 32 12 74 544


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.233 0.236
Slugging Average: 0.379 0.383
Walks (per PA): 0.084 0.080
SOs (per PA): 0.217 0.224
On-Base Average: 0.306 0.305
Power Factor: 1.628 1.619
OPS: 0.685 0.688
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 539
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 544
Actual Runs Scored: 542

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