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Astros 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Astros Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 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 0.992)

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: 94 162 145 41 7 0 3 57 10 3 3 1 0 752
Nick Allen, projected: 94 161 146 32 5 0 1 42 10 3 1 1 0 356
Jose Altuve, actual: 135 573 524 131 24 2 16 207 41 1 4 3 0 626
Jose Altuve, projected: 135 569 516 155 29 2 17 238 43 2 3 5 0 914
Yordan Alvarez, actual: 158 692 567 179 34 1 42 341 109 0 5 11 0 1519
Yordan Alvarez, projected: 158 687 583 175 37 1 41 337 88 0 6 10 0 1265
Jorge Barrosa, actual: 8 15 11 1 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 206
Jorge Barrosa, projected: 8 15 13 2 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 150
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: 32 140 123 34 7 0 5 57 15 0 1 1 0 881
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ray Delgado, actual: 20 41 37 9 1 0 1 13 3 1 0 0 0 568
Ray Delgado, projected: 20 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 81 75 17 4 0 2 26 7 0 0 0 0 579
Yainer Diaz, actual: 98 361 344 98 16 1 14 158 12 0 2 3 0 769
Yainer Diaz, projected: 98 358 340 95 17 1 14 155 13 0 4 2 0 754
Dustin Harris, actual: 11 36 31 7 0 1 0 9 2 1 1 1 0 561
Dustin Harris, projected: 11 36 32 9 1 1 0 13 3 0 1 1 0 837
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: 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 0 543
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brice Matthews, actual: 84 233 214 43 5 1 7 71 16 2 1 0 0 440
Brice Matthews, projected: 84 231 211 41 4 1 9 74 15 3 1 1 0 464
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 50 11 1 1 2 0 586
Isaac Paredes, actual: 155 659 562 147 27 1 25 251 71 0 7 19 0 938
Isaac Paredes, projected: 155 654 562 136 26 1 27 243 72 0 5 16 0 816
Jeremy Peña, actual: 112 483 447 124 19 2 22 213 24 0 3 9 0 930
Jeremy Peña, projected: 112 479 441 120 22 2 14 188 25 1 3 8 1 779
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 82 78 15 4 0 2 25 2 1 2 0 0 332
Cam Smith, actual: 157 568 510 107 17 6 21 199 44 0 6 7 1 624
Cam Smith, projected: 157 564 505 112 20 5 16 190 46 0 4 7 1 608
Lucas Spence, actual: 19 63 55 12 2 1 4 28 7 0 0 1 0 819
Lucas Spence, projected: 19 63 55 12 2 1 4 28 7 0 0 1 0 772
Taylor Trammell, actual: 99 289 255 49 10 2 8 87 29 1 0 4 0 507
Taylor Trammell, projected: 99 287 250 45 12 1 10 88 31 1 1 3 0 503
Daulton Varsho, actual: 41 161 151 26 4 1 5 47 10 0 0 0 0 415
Daulton Varsho, projected: 41 160 144 33 7 1 6 60 13 0 1 1 0 679
Christian Vázquez, actual: 86 266 242 50 7 0 7 78 18 5 1 0 0 439
Christian Vázquez, projected: 86 264 243 60 11 0 5 88 16 1 2 1 0 531
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nelson Velázquez, actual: 18 30 27 3 0 0 2 9 2 0 1 0 0 450
Nelson Velázquez, projected: 18 30 27 6 1 0 2 11 2 0 0 0 0 717
LaMonte Wade Jr., actual: 56 146 127 26 6 0 4 44 19 0 0 0 0 636
LaMonte Wade Jr., projected: 56 145 123 29 5 1 4 48 18 1 1 2 0 756
Christian Walker, actual: 156 635 571 129 26 1 29 244 51 0 3 10 0 706
Christian Walker, projected: 156 630 559 137 29 1 28 253 57 0 5 9 0 780
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: 162 6122 5457 1320 238 21 226 2278 530 18 41 74 2 737
Astros, Projected: 162 6078 5428 1355 261 21 218 2313 514 17 42 75 2 736


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.242 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.417 0.426
Walks (per PA): 0.087 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.219 0.220
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.321
Power Factor: 1.726 1.707
OPS: 0.733 0.747
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 737
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 736
Actual Runs Scored: 734

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