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Astros 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Astros Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 0.987)

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: 67 123 110 28 4 0 1 35 7 2 3 1 0 554
Nick Allen, projected: 67 121 110 24 3 0 1 30 7 2 1 1 0 363
Jose Altuve, actual: 96 409 371 89 15 1 13 145 33 1 2 2 0 627
Jose Altuve, projected: 96 404 366 110 21 1 12 169 30 1 2 4 0 911
Yordan Alvarez, actual: 120 530 435 140 25 0 35 270 84 0 4 7 0 1600
Yordan Alvarez, projected: 120 523 445 134 28 1 32 258 66 0 5 7 0 1274
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: 32 139 123 34 7 0 5 57 14 0 1 1 0 879
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: 35 82 75 16 4 0 1 23 7 0 0 0 0 477
Zach Dezenzo, projected: 35 81 74 17 4 0 2 26 7 0 0 0 0 589
Yainer Diaz, actual: 62 238 226 57 9 0 8 90 9 0 2 1 0 595
Yainer Diaz, projected: 62 235 223 61 11 1 9 100 8 0 2 1 0 729
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 11 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: 39 118 107 26 6 1 2 41 8 1 0 2 0 565
Brice Matthews, actual: 82 226 208 41 5 1 7 69 15 2 1 0 0 428
Brice Matthews, projected: 82 223 204 39 4 1 9 72 14 3 1 1 0 463
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jake Meyers, actual: 54 153 141 30 7 0 3 46 10 0 1 1 0 508
Jake Meyers, projected: 54 151 137 33 6 1 3 50 11 1 1 2 0 596
Isaac Paredes, actual: 115 488 422 107 21 1 15 175 46 0 4 16 0 827
Isaac Paredes, projected: 115 482 415 99 19 1 19 177 52 0 3 12 0 789
Jeremy Peña, actual: 74 322 293 85 13 1 13 139 21 0 2 6 0 1044
Jeremy Peña, projected: 74 318 292 80 14 1 9 124 17 1 2 6 1 787
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 77 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: 119 438 392 88 15 2 16 155 35 0 4 6 1 653
Cam Smith, projected: 119 432 387 89 17 2 12 145 36 0 3 6 0 629
Lucas Spence, actual: 14 41 37 6 1 0 0 7 3 0 0 1 0 214
Lucas Spence, projected: 14 40 37 6 1 0 0 7 3 0 0 1 0 221
Taylor Trammell, actual: 64 189 166 39 6 2 7 70 18 1 0 4 0 723
Taylor Trammell, projected: 64 187 162 31 8 1 7 61 20 1 1 2 0 556
Daulton Varsho, actual: 9 37 32 4 0 0 1 7 5 0 0 0 0 366
Daulton Varsho, projected: 9 37 33 7 2 0 1 14 3 0 0 0 0 566
Christian Vázquez, actual: 71 225 204 43 7 0 5 65 15 5 1 0 0 434
Christian Vázquez, projected: 71 222 205 51 10 0 5 74 14 1 1 1 0 541
Nelson Velázquez, actual: 2 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Nelson Velázquez, projected: 2 4 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 333
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
LaMonte Wade Jr., actual: 30 92 77 17 4 0 2 27 15 0 0 0 0 807
LaMonte Wade Jr., projected: 30 91 77 18 3 0 3 30 12 1 1 1 0 800
Christian Walker, actual: 118 484 432 102 24 1 22 194 42 0 1 9 0 763
Christian Walker, projected: 118 478 424 104 22 1 21 193 43 0 4 7 0 787
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: 122 4626 4108 1000 182 11 162 1690 411 16 30 59 2 554
Astros, Projected: 122 4568 4083 1017 196 12 160 1720 380 14 30 56 1 544


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.243 0.249
Slugging Average: 0.411 0.421
Walks (per PA): 0.089 0.083
SOs (per PA): 0.213 0.221
On-Base Average: 0.319 0.319
Power Factor: 1.690 1.691
OPS: 0.730 0.741
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 554
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 544
Actual Runs Scored: 559

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