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Astros 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Astros Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 July 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 0.99)

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: 52 106 95 23 3 0 1 29 6 2 2 1 0 498
Nick Allen, projected: 52 105 95 21 3 0 1 26 6 2 1 0 0 361
Jose Altuve, actual: 79 338 306 71 14 1 12 123 29 1 1 1 0 599
Jose Altuve, projected: 79 335 303 91 17 1 10 141 25 1 2 3 0 920
Yordan Alvarez, actual: 102 446 372 122 20 0 34 244 66 0 3 5 0 1666
Yordan Alvarez, projected: 102 442 377 113 23 1 27 220 55 0 4 6 0 1255
Zach Cole, actual: 19 53 51 8 1 0 3 18 1 0 0 1 0 435
Zach Cole, projected: 19 52 49 10 1 0 3 22 3 0 0 0 0 592
Carlos Correa, actual: 32 141 122 34 8 0 3 51 18 0 1 0 0 873
Carlos Correa, projected: 32 140 123 34 7 0 5 57 15 0 1 1 0 881
Ray Delgado, actual: 17 36 33 9 1 0 1 13 2 1 0 0 0 664
Ray Delgado, projected: 17 36 33 9 1 0 1 13 2 1 0 0 0 591
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Zach Dezenzo, actual: 30 72 65 15 4 0 1 22 7 0 0 0 0 625
Zach Dezenzo, projected: 30 71 65 16 3 0 1 23 6 0 0 0 0 600
Yainer Diaz, actual: 48 191 181 43 9 0 6 70 7 0 2 1 0 537
Yainer Diaz, projected: 48 189 179 49 9 0 7 80 7 0 2 1 0 710
Dustin Harris, actual: 11 36 31 7 0 1 0 9 2 1 1 1 0 561
Dustin Harris, projected: 11 36 31 7 2 0 1 12 3 0 0 0 0 606
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 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 178
Joey Loperfido, actual: 39 120 102 22 7 1 1 34 14 1 1 1 1 525
Joey Loperfido, projected: 39 119 108 26 6 1 2 41 8 1 0 2 0 554
Brice Matthews, actual: 82 226 208 41 5 1 7 69 15 2 1 0 0 428
Brice Matthews, projected: 82 224 205 39 4 1 9 72 14 3 1 1 0 462
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jake Meyers, actual: 52 148 136 28 6 0 3 43 10 0 1 1 0 490
Jake Meyers, projected: 52 147 133 32 6 1 3 49 10 1 1 2 0 611
Isaac Paredes, actual: 97 410 354 93 18 1 14 155 39 0 4 13 0 911
Isaac Paredes, projected: 97 406 350 84 16 1 16 151 44 0 3 10 0 794
Jeremy Peña, actual: 56 235 212 64 9 0 9 100 17 0 2 4 0 1118
Jeremy Peña, projected: 56 233 214 58 11 1 6 90 13 1 1 4 1 763
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
Braden Shewmake, actual: 30 83 78 20 4 0 3 33 2 2 1 0 0 550
Braden Shewmake, projected: 30 82 78 15 4 0 2 25 2 1 2 0 0 332
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cam Smith, actual: 102 375 334 70 13 1 12 121 32 0 4 4 1 586
Cam Smith, projected: 102 371 332 74 15 2 9 119 32 0 3 5 0 597
Lucas Spence, actual: 6 22 20 4 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 284
Lucas Spence, projected: 6 22 20 4 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 284
Taylor Trammell, actual: 48 132 121 28 5 1 3 44 9 1 0 1 0 551
Taylor Trammell, projected: 48 131 115 22 6 0 4 41 14 1 0 1 0 484
Christian Vázquez, actual: 63 200 181 38 6 0 5 59 14 4 1 0 0 454
Christian Vázquez, projected: 63 198 182 45 9 0 4 67 12 1 1 1 0 526
LaMonte Wade Jr., actual: 16 56 47 8 2 0 2 16 9 0 0 0 0 694
LaMonte Wade Jr., projected: 16 55 47 11 2 0 2 18 7 0 0 1 0 750
Christian Walker, actual: 101 414 372 87 19 1 20 168 33 0 1 8 0 753
Christian Walker, projected: 101 410 364 90 19 1 18 166 37 0 3 6 0 786
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Shay Whitcomb, actual: 17 24 23 3 0 0 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 508
Shay Whitcomb, projected: 17 24 22 4 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 419
Astros, Actual: 104 3916 3488 843 156 8 142 1441 341 15 26 44 2 466
Astros, Projected: 104 3880 3471 862 167 10 132 1457 322 13 25 45 1 454


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.242 0.248
Slugging Average: 0.413 0.420
Walks (per PA): 0.087 0.083
SOs (per PA): 0.215 0.222
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.318
Power Factor: 1.709 1.690
OPS: 0.728 0.738
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 466
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 454
Actual Runs Scored: 473

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