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Astros 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Astros Projected Pitching

Through games of Tuesday, 22 September 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 0.995)

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
Bryan Abreu, actual: 64 259 212 42 10 1 9 81 40 28 181 2 0 5 0 0 6 684
Bryan Abreu, projected: 64 258 222 44 9 0 5 70 30 21 181 1 1 4 1 0 7 547
Jason Alexander, actual: 4 84 75 21 3 3 4 42 8 19 55 0 0 1 0 0 1 1137
Jason Alexander, projected: 4 84 75 21 4 1 3 37 7 13 55 0 1 1 1 0 1 972
Spencer Arrighetti, actual: 17 386 317 68 10 0 12 114 50 47 264 2 3 14 2 0 19 766
Spencer Arrighetti, projected: 17 384 328 77 15 1 14 134 45 50 264 1 3 8 2 0 14 829
Ronel Blanco, actual: 7 136 119 30 3 1 9 62 15 25 95 1 0 1 1 0 1 910
Ronel Blanco, projected: 7 135 119 25 5 0 5 48 14 15 95 0 1 1 1 0 2 671
AJ Blubaugh, actual: 62 391 339 75 16 2 13 134 41 40 280 2 6 3 1 0 7 678
AJ Blubaugh, projected: 62 389 341 70 14 2 14 130 39 39 280 2 5 2 1 0 7 630
Cody Bolton, actual: 8 95 78 21 6 0 3 36 14 12 60 1 1 1 0 0 2 1047
Cody Bolton, projected: 8 95 80 23 6 0 3 38 12 13 60 1 1 1 1 0 1 1094
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Hunter Brown, actual: 19 427 371 79 10 0 11 122 51 40 306 0 1 4 4 0 18 615
Hunter Brown, projected: 19 425 382 88 14 1 12 139 37 43 306 0 1 4 2 0 12 614
Mike Burrows, actual: 18 423 384 112 18 1 21 195 35 69 284 0 0 4 2 0 6 989
Mike Burrows, projected: 18 421 380 101 15 2 18 172 35 57 284 0 2 5 2 1 7 864
Enyel De Los Santos, actual: 66 301 276 69 18 1 11 122 20 43 214 2 2 1 2 1 6 734
Enyel De Los Santos, projected: 66 300 267 66 17 1 10 116 26 39 214 1 2 3 2 2 4 719
J.P. France, actual: 3 31 25 6 1 0 1 10 5 6 20 0 0 1 0 0 0 878
J.P. France, projected: 3 31 28 7 1 0 1 12 3 4 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Colton Gordon, actual: 4 50 45 21 1 1 6 42 3 12 28 0 1 1 0 1 0 2474
Colton Gordon, projected: 4 50 46 14 3 0 3 26 3 8 28 0 1 0 0 0 0 1337
Josh Hader, actual: 44 158 147 17 4 0 1 24 11 4 130 0 0 0 0 0 2 150
Josh Hader, projected: 44 157 139 22 4 0 5 41 15 12 130 0 1 2 0 0 2 398
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Tatsuya Imai, actual: 22 335 277 58 9 0 9 94 51 42 227 1 2 4 0 0 6 702
Tatsuya Imai, projected: 22 333 276 58 9 0 9 94 51 42 227 1 2 4 0 0 6 707
Cristian Javier, actual: 17 276 245 64 8 2 10 106 28 36 189 0 1 2 0 0 8 840
Cristian Javier, projected: 17 275 242 51 10 1 9 92 27 29 189 1 2 3 1 0 6 658
Bryan King, actual: 58 267 235 66 9 1 9 104 22 39 175 2 2 6 4 2 2 957
Bryan King, projected: 58 266 240 60 9 0 8 93 18 27 175 1 2 5 3 1 1 735
Peter Lambert, actual: 27 641 565 128 21 0 15 194 57 64 453 4 3 12 5 0 12 621
Peter Lambert, projected: 27 638 565 155 30 7 22 264 56 88 453 3 4 9 4 2 9 852
Lance McCullers Jr., actual: 8 172 148 38 11 1 7 72 22 32 118 0 0 2 0 0 3 866
Lance McCullers Jr., projected: 8 171 150 35 9 1 4 56 18 19 118 0 1 2 1 0 1 689
Jake Meyers, actual: 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jake Meyers, projected: 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Roddery Muñoz, actual: 3 25 19 7 2 0 3 18 6 7 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 2939
Roddery Muñoz, projected: 3 25 21 6 1 0 2 13 3 5 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1620
Jayden Murray, actual: 8 62 54 19 5 0 1 27 7 11 40 0 1 0 0 0 1 1113
Jayden Murray, projected: 8 62 55 17 3 0 1 25 6 9 40 0 0 0 0 0 1 830
Steven Okert, actual: 68 261 237 45 7 2 7 77 14 17 203 3 3 4 1 0 6 432
Steven Okert, projected: 68 260 228 47 10 1 8 83 22 26 203 3 2 4 1 2 5 531
Nate Pearson, actual: 16 84 71 16 2 0 1 21 12 10 60 0 0 1 1 0 4 582
Nate Pearson, projected: 16 84 72 18 3 0 3 30 9 11 60 0 1 1 0 0 2 790
Ethan Pecko, actual: 6 116 102 20 4 0 5 39 12 13 86 0 0 2 0 0 4 598
Ethan Pecko, projected: 6 115 102 20 4 0 5 39 12 13 86 0 0 2 0 0 4 594
Christian Roa, actual: 7 43 32 10 1 1 1 16 7 5 26 0 1 3 0 0 2 1428
Christian Roa, projected: 7 43 32 9 2 1 1 14 8 4 26 0 1 2 0 0 2 1319
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
César Salazar, actual: 1 4 4 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1448
César Salazar, projected: 1 4 4 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1458
Alimber Santa, actual: 10 59 50 8 1 0 1 12 6 6 46 0 3 0 2 0 0 428
Alimber Santa, projected: 10 59 50 8 1 0 1 12 6 6 46 0 3 0 2 0 0 421
Bennett Sousa, actual: 33 134 114 31 4 0 4 47 18 18 88 1 1 0 0 0 3 898
Bennett Sousa, projected: 33 133 118 29 5 0 3 44 13 17 88 1 1 0 0 0 5 702
Kai-Wei Teng, actual: 30 329 282 69 14 2 10 117 33 43 221 1 0 13 0 0 0 794
Kai-Wei Teng, projected: 30 327 277 71 13 1 9 113 36 49 221 1 1 13 1 0 1 832
Miguel Ullola, actual: 9 48 42 6 1 0 2 13 4 4 38 0 0 2 0 0 1 417
Miguel Ullola, projected: 9 48 42 6 1 0 2 13 4 4 38 0 0 2 0 0 1 414
Logan VanWey, actual: 7 35 33 9 0 0 1 12 0 3 30 1 1 0 0 0 0 316
Logan VanWey, projected: 7 35 32 10 0 0 1 14 1 4 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 509
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
LaMonte Wade Jr., actual: 1 6 6 3 1 0 1 7 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3519
LaMonte Wade Jr., projected: 1 6 6 3 1 0 1 7 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3564
Ryan Weiss, actual: 9 131 111 35 2 1 8 63 20 24 78 0 0 0 0 0 1 1447
Ryan Weiss, projected: 9 130 110 35 2 1 8 63 20 24 78 0 0 0 0 0 1 1458
Hayden Wesneski, actual: 10 219 196 43 8 3 4 69 19 25 162 1 1 2 2 0 4 540
Hayden Wesneski, projected: 10 218 198 45 8 1 9 81 16 26 162 1 1 2 1 0 3 648
Astros, Actual: 157 5991 5214 1237 210 23 201 2096 631 747 4178 24 33 89 27 4 125 717
Astros, Projected: 157 5964 5230 1242 228 22 200 2117 592 720 4178 18 40 80 27 8 105 707


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.237
Slugging Average: 0.402 0.405
Walks (per PA): 0.105 0.099
SOs (per PA): 0.228 0.239
On-Base Average: 0.328 0.322
Power Factor: 1.694 1.705
OPS: 0.730 0.727
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 717
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 707
Actual Runs Scored: 747

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