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Royals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Royals Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 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
Jac Caglianone, actual: 127 496 460 130 25 2 23 228 30 0 1 5 0 942
Jac Caglianone, projected: 127 492 453 110 21 2 20 196 32 0 1 6 0 711
Isaac Collins, actual: 125 455 391 90 23 3 6 137 53 2 3 6 0 638
Isaac Collins, projected: 125 451 385 94 22 3 7 144 55 2 3 6 0 716
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: 73 309 283 76 18 3 3 109 24 0 2 0 0 611
Maikel Garcia, projected: 73 307 278 73 15 2 4 106 24 1 3 0 0 653
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: 79 262 236 55 9 1 6 84 14 7 2 3 0 497
Kyle Isbel, projected: 79 260 237 56 11 3 4 86 15 4 2 2 0 513
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carter Jensen, actual: 129 516 451 101 26 1 19 186 57 0 6 2 0 731
Carter Jensen, projected: 129 512 447 104 28 1 19 192 58 0 5 2 0 760
Nick Loftin, actual: 99 358 308 73 23 2 7 121 36 4 4 6 0 675
Nick Loftin, projected: 99 355 310 71 19 2 5 110 33 3 4 5 0 566
Matthew Lugo, actual: 3 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 710
Matthew Lugo, projected: 3 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Luke Maile, actual: 12 34 33 5 1 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 216
Luke Maile, projected: 12 34 30 6 2 0 1 10 2 0 0 0 0 433
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 0 838
Michael Massey, actual: 110 366 340 94 22 1 11 151 19 2 5 0 0 728
Michael Massey, projected: 110 363 337 84 16 1 10 134 17 2 4 4 0 621
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 12 3 0 0 0 0 468
Vinnie Pasquantino, actual: 92 392 340 83 15 2 9 129 45 0 4 3 0 785
Vinnie Pasquantino, projected: 92 389 346 91 19 1 14 153 35 0 4 3 0 808
Salvador Perez, actual: 129 539 498 110 21 1 17 184 20 0 7 12 2 510
Salvador Perez, projected: 129 535 501 131 24 1 23 226 21 0 4 8 1 699
John Rave, actual: 33 93 83 18 5 1 3 34 8 2 0 0 0 660
John Rave, projected: 33 92 81 17 3 0 2 28 9 1 0 0 0 488
Josh Rojas, actual: 34 95 89 23 4 0 2 33 4 2 0 0 0 618
Josh Rojas, projected: 34 94 83 20 4 0 1 29 9 0 1 0 0 606
Lane Thomas, actual: 97 328 285 66 16 0 10 112 39 0 2 2 0 725
Lane Thomas, projected: 97 325 292 70 16 1 11 121 28 0 3 3 0 724
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 65 132 114 35 5 0 3 49 12 4 1 1 0 970
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 65 131 114 34 5 0 3 47 9 3 2 3 0 931
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: 120 531 470 134 28 1 16 212 55 0 4 2 0 1005
Bobby Witt Jr., projected: 120 527 479 139 29 6 20 238 37 0 5 5 0 964
Royals, Actual: 139 5217 4663 1154 250 18 142 1866 437 24 43 48 2 604
Royals, Projected: 139 5177 4652 1172 248 24 151 1931 405 17 42 53 1 612


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.247 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.400 0.415
Walks (per PA): 0.084 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.209 0.206
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.316
Power Factor: 1.617 1.648
OPS: 0.716 0.731
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 604
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 612
Actual Runs Scored: 593

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