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Royals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Royals 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 0.993)

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
Jac Caglianone, actual: 138 531 490 138 27 2 23 238 33 0 1 7 0 937
Jac Caglianone, projected: 138 527 484 118 23 2 21 207 35 0 1 8 0 717
Isaac Collins, actual: 141 504 429 93 24 3 6 141 62 3 3 7 0 589
Isaac Collins, projected: 141 500 425 100 24 3 8 154 63 3 3 7 0 693
Elias Díaz, actual: 10 23 22 5 2 0 2 13 1 0 0 0 0 1045
Elias Díaz, projected: 10 23 21 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 627
Maikel Garcia, actual: 78 326 299 77 19 3 3 111 25 0 2 0 0 555
Maikel Garcia, projected: 78 324 294 77 16 3 5 112 25 1 3 0 0 668
Jonathan India, actual: 17 58 48 8 1 0 2 15 8 0 0 2 0 685
Jonathan India, projected: 17 58 49 12 3 0 1 20 6 0 0 2 0 715
Kyle Isbel, actual: 95 308 280 61 9 1 6 90 15 8 2 3 0 422
Kyle Isbel, projected: 95 306 279 65 13 4 5 100 18 5 2 2 0 507
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carter Jensen, actual: 144 580 507 118 33 2 25 230 64 0 6 3 0 817
Carter Jensen, projected: 144 576 503 121 35 2 25 233 65 0 5 3 0 840
Nick Loftin, actual: 116 418 363 87 26 2 7 138 41 4 4 6 0 658
Nick Loftin, projected: 116 415 364 84 22 2 6 128 38 3 4 5 0 567
Matthew Lugo, actual: 9 15 14 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 144
Matthew Lugo, projected: 9 15 15 3 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 523
Luke Maile, actual: 16 45 41 7 2 0 1 12 4 0 0 0 0 320
Luke Maile, projected: 16 45 40 8 2 0 1 13 3 0 0 1 0 424
Starling Marte, actual: 59 168 153 37 5 0 2 48 9 0 2 4 0 478
Starling Marte, projected: 59 167 152 43 8 1 4 66 9 1 1 4 0 831
Michael Massey, actual: 126 430 401 110 24 1 13 175 21 3 5 0 0 691
Michael Massey, projected: 126 427 397 99 19 1 12 158 19 2 5 4 0 620
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Kameron Misner, actual: 18 44 41 9 1 0 0 10 2 1 0 0 0 317
Kameron Misner, projected: 18 44 40 8 2 0 1 13 3 0 0 0 0 468
Vinnie Pasquantino, actual: 108 455 397 97 18 2 14 161 50 0 5 3 0 785
Vinnie Pasquantino, projected: 108 452 402 105 22 1 17 180 40 0 5 4 0 810
Salvador Perez, actual: 146 604 559 127 23 1 19 209 23 0 7 13 2 530
Salvador Perez, projected: 146 600 562 147 27 1 26 253 23 0 5 9 1 708
John Rave, actual: 48 145 127 29 7 1 6 56 16 2 0 0 0 776
John Rave, projected: 48 144 126 27 5 0 4 46 15 2 0 0 0 558
Josh Rojas, actual: 40 108 100 24 4 0 2 34 5 2 0 1 0 530
Josh Rojas, projected: 40 107 95 23 5 0 2 33 10 1 1 0 0 637
Lane Thomas, actual: 97 328 285 66 16 0 10 112 39 0 2 2 0 725
Lane Thomas, projected: 97 326 292 70 16 1 11 121 28 0 3 3 0 722
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 76 143 125 36 5 0 3 50 12 4 1 1 0 829
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 76 142 124 36 5 0 3 49 9 4 2 3 0 830
Andrew Velazquez, actual: 6 15 15 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 20
Andrew Velazquez, projected: 6 15 14 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 272
Bobby Witt Jr., actual: 137 607 534 149 30 1 18 235 66 0 4 3 0 980
Bobby Witt Jr., projected: 137 603 548 158 33 6 22 270 44 0 6 5 0 957
Royals, Actual: 156 5855 5230 1281 276 19 162 2081 497 27 44 55 2 670
Royals, Projected: 156 5816 5226 1312 281 27 176 2174 456 22 46 60 1 690


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.245 0.251
Slugging Average: 0.398 0.416
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.210 0.208
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.316
Power Factor: 1.625 1.657
OPS: 0.713 0.732
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 670
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 690
Actual Runs Scored: 656

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