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Astros 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Astros Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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 0.994)

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
Nick Allen, actual: 90 157 140 38 5 0 3 52 10 3 3 1 0 698
Nick Allen, projected: 90 156 142 31 4 0 1 40 10 3 1 1 0 346
Jose Altuve, actual: 129 545 498 124 24 2 16 200 40 1 3 3 0 636
Jose Altuve, projected: 129 542 491 147 28 2 16 227 41 2 3 5 0 906
Yordan Alvarez, actual: 152 663 543 170 32 1 40 324 105 0 5 10 0 1496
Yordan Alvarez, projected: 152 659 560 168 35 1 39 323 84 0 6 9 0 1257
Jorge Barrosa, actual: 4 10 7 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 319
Jorge Barrosa, projected: 4 10 9 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 446
Zach Cole, actual: 19 53 51 8 1 0 3 18 1 0 0 1 0 435
Zach Cole, projected: 19 53 49 10 2 0 4 22 3 0 0 1 0 756
Carlos Correa, actual: 32 141 122 34 8 0 3 51 18 0 1 0 0 873
Carlos Correa, projected: 32 140 124 34 7 0 5 57 15 0 1 1 0 871
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ray Delgado, actual: 19 41 37 9 1 0 1 13 3 1 0 0 0 568
Ray Delgado, projected: 19 41 37 9 1 0 1 13 3 1 0 0 0 512
Zach Dezenzo, actual: 35 82 75 16 4 0 1 23 7 0 0 0 0 477
Zach Dezenzo, projected: 35 82 75 18 4 0 2 26 7 0 0 0 0 615
Yainer Diaz, actual: 92 333 316 88 14 0 13 141 12 0 2 3 0 744
Yainer Diaz, projected: 92 331 314 87 16 1 13 142 12 0 3 2 0 750
Dustin Harris, actual: 11 36 31 7 0 1 0 9 2 1 1 1 0 561
Dustin Harris, projected: 11 36 32 9 2 1 0 13 3 0 0 0 0 749
Daniel Johnson, actual: 8 17 14 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 228
Daniel Johnson, projected: 8 17 16 3 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 553
Joey Loperfido, actual: 40 121 103 22 7 1 1 34 14 1 1 1 1 514
Joey Loperfido, projected: 40 120 109 26 6 1 2 41 8 1 0 2 0 558
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brice Matthews, actual: 83 230 212 42 5 1 7 70 15 2 1 0 0 427
Brice Matthews, projected: 83 229 210 40 4 1 9 73 14 3 1 1 0 456
Jake Meyers, actual: 57 153 141 30 7 0 3 46 10 0 1 1 0 508
Jake Meyers, projected: 57 152 138 33 6 1 3 51 11 1 1 2 0 586
Isaac Paredes, actual: 149 631 539 140 26 1 22 234 67 0 6 19 0 906
Isaac Paredes, projected: 149 627 539 130 25 1 25 232 69 0 4 15 0 801
Jeremy Peña, actual: 106 456 422 116 19 2 20 199 24 0 2 8 0 924
Jeremy Peña, projected: 106 453 417 113 21 2 13 178 24 1 3 8 1 781
Collin Price, actual: 7 13 12 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 258
Collin Price, projected: 7 13 12 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 258
César Salazar, actual: 9 22 18 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 116
César Salazar, projected: 9 22 18 3 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 1 0 233
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Braden Shewmake, actual: 30 83 78 20 4 0 3 33 2 2 1 0 0 550
Braden Shewmake, projected: 30 83 78 15 4 0 2 25 2 1 2 0 0 329
Cam Smith, actual: 151 542 489 102 16 6 20 190 39 0 6 7 1 599
Cam Smith, projected: 151 539 484 107 19 5 15 181 43 0 4 7 1 600
Lucas Spence, actual: 14 41 37 6 1 0 0 7 3 0 0 1 0 214
Lucas Spence, projected: 14 41 37 6 1 0 0 7 3 0 0 1 0 214
Taylor Trammell, actual: 94 273 242 49 10 2 8 87 26 1 0 4 0 541
Taylor Trammell, projected: 94 271 237 44 12 1 9 85 29 1 1 3 0 508
Daulton Varsho, actual: 41 161 151 26 4 1 5 47 10 0 0 0 0 415
Daulton Varsho, projected: 41 160 145 33 7 1 6 60 13 0 1 1 0 679
Christian Vázquez, actual: 85 262 238 49 7 0 7 77 18 5 1 0 0 441
Christian Vázquez, projected: 85 260 240 59 11 0 5 87 16 1 2 1 0 524
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nelson Velázquez, actual: 14 26 24 3 0 0 2 9 1 0 1 0 0 480
Nelson Velázquez, projected: 14 26 23 5 1 0 1 10 2 0 0 0 0 516
LaMonte Wade Jr., actual: 53 143 125 26 6 0 4 44 18 0 0 0 0 642
LaMonte Wade Jr., projected: 53 142 121 28 5 1 4 47 18 1 1 2 0 757
Christian Walker, actual: 150 608 548 121 25 1 25 223 48 0 2 10 0 659
Christian Walker, projected: 150 604 537 131 28 1 27 241 54 0 5 8 0 777
Shay Whitcomb, actual: 17 24 23 3 0 0 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 508
Shay Whitcomb, projected: 17 24 23 4 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 419
Astros, Actual: 156 5867 5236 1255 228 19 209 2148 502 18 37 72 2 691
Astros, Projected: 156 5833 5217 1297 252 20 204 2203 490 16 39 71 2 699


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.240 0.249
Slugging Average: 0.410 0.422
Walks (per PA): 0.086 0.084
SOs (per PA): 0.219 0.220
On-Base Average: 0.313 0.319
Power Factor: 1.712 1.699
OPS: 0.723 0.742
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 691
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 699
Actual Runs Scored: 688

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