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Tigers 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Tigers Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 20 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: 35 250 220 53 11 0 9 91 23 30 172 2 1 4 1 1 5 764
Drew Anderson, projected: 35 250 222 58 13 0 7 93 22 35 172 1 1 4 2 2 7 815
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: 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: 42 184 158 40 9 1 5 66 25 12 132 1 0 0 0 0 7 689
Kyle Finnegan, projected: 42 184 164 39 6 1 5 64 18 20 132 1 1 1 1 2 6 660
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
Brenan Hanifee, actual: 16 68 62 18 3 0 2 27 4 6 47 1 0 1 0 0 2 783
Brenan Hanifee, projected: 16 68 64 17 3 1 1 25 3 7 47 0 0 0 1 0 1 719
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: 42 188 174 49 8 1 5 74 10 20 133 1 0 3 1 0 0 707
Tyler Holton, projected: 42 188 175 36 5 0 6 60 10 16 133 1 1 1 1 0 1 501
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: 29 109 92 17 1 0 5 33 16 13 77 0 1 0 0 1 9 736
Kenley Jansen, projected: 29 109 99 18 3 0 3 30 9 9 77 0 1 1 1 1 4 520
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: 9 212 194 33 8 0 7 62 15 12 165 0 1 2 1 0 1 419
Troy Melton, projected: 9 212 193 35 6 0 8 64 16 15 165 1 1 2 2 0 3 468
Casey Mize, actual: 15 320 296 64 22 1 5 103 19 26 242 1 3 1 3 0 9 482
Casey Mize, projected: 15 320 293 75 14 2 10 124 20 36 242 0 2 3 3 0 6 680
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: 21 399 369 77 16 2 9 124 22 38 302 3 2 3 1 2 1 446
Keider Montero, projected: 21 399 366 90 14 2 15 152 28 46 302 1 1 3 1 1 3 633
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: 14 321 304 66 13 1 10 111 11 29 248 1 1 4 4 0 4 483
Tarik Skubal, projected: 14 321 298 65 13 1 10 108 17 30 248 1 2 3 2 0 2 509
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: 18 53 44 12 1 0 1 16 7 6 34 1 0 1 0 1 1 812
Drew Sommers, projected: 18 53 43 14 1 1 1 21 7 9 34 1 0 1 0 1 1 1143
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: 19 469 420 106 17 1 11 158 36 54 323 0 3 10 2 0 13 739
Framber Valdez, projected: 19 469 418 96 16 2 9 144 40 47 323 1 3 6 4 0 9 614
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: 11 57 51 8 0 0 2 14 4 2 43 1 0 1 1 0 0 431
Jacob Waguespack, projected: 11 57 50 13 2 0 2 21 6 8 43 0 0 1 1 0 1 795
Tigers, Actual: 100 3698 3318 775 157 14 98 1254 298 393 2648 19 21 42 23 7 62 391
Tigers, Projected: 100 3698 3336 791 140 14 105 1278 290 413 2648 13 18 38 25 9 55 399


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.234 0.237
Slugging Average: 0.378 0.383
Walks (per PA): 0.081 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.227 0.229
On-Base Average: 0.303 0.304
Power Factor: 1.618 1.616
OPS: 0.681 0.687
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 391
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 399
Actual Runs Scored: 393

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