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Royals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Royals Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 12 July 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: 90 349 319 83 15 2 15 147 25 0 1 4 0 839
Jac Caglianone, projected: 90 346 315 69 13 2 13 125 26 0 1 5 0 616
Isaac Collins, actual: 86 315 267 64 16 1 5 97 38 2 2 6 0 718
Isaac Collins, projected: 86 313 265 66 15 2 6 102 39 2 2 5 0 788
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: 69 294 268 70 17 2 3 100 24 0 2 0 0 615
Maikel Garcia, projected: 69 292 264 70 14 2 4 101 23 1 3 0 0 664
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: 56 183 164 40 7 1 3 58 10 5 1 3 0 537
Kyle Isbel, projected: 56 182 165 39 8 2 3 60 11 3 1 2 0 528
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carter Jensen, actual: 89 346 309 73 18 0 13 130 31 0 5 1 0 727
Carter Jensen, projected: 89 343 305 75 20 0 13 135 33 0 4 1 0 769
Nick Loftin, actual: 59 205 175 43 15 1 4 72 21 1 3 5 0 767
Nick Loftin, projected: 59 203 178 41 11 1 3 62 19 1 3 3 0 596
Luke Maile, actual: 2 7 6 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 1115
Luke Maile, projected: 2 7 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 317
Starling Marte, actual: 44 125 112 30 4 0 1 37 8 0 2 3 0 591
Starling Marte, projected: 44 124 113 32 6 1 3 49 7 0 1 3 0 853
Michael Massey, actual: 77 246 227 59 16 0 7 96 14 2 3 0 0 669
Michael Massey, projected: 77 244 226 56 11 1 7 88 11 1 3 3 0 625
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Vinnie Pasquantino, actual: 70 299 261 58 10 2 6 90 33 0 4 1 0 651
Vinnie Pasquantino, projected: 70 297 265 69 14 1 11 117 26 0 4 2 0 803
Salvador Perez, actual: 89 374 349 73 14 0 11 120 13 0 5 7 0 449
Salvador Perez, projected: 89 371 348 91 17 1 16 157 14 0 3 5 0 705
John Rave, actual: 9 21 18 4 2 1 1 11 3 0 0 0 0 1075
John Rave, projected: 9 21 18 4 1 0 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 597
Josh Rojas, actual: 15 35 34 6 2 0 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 527
Josh Rojas, projected: 15 35 31 7 2 0 1 11 3 0 0 0 0 618
Lane Thomas, actual: 82 269 231 54 15 0 7 90 34 0 2 2 0 722
Lane Thomas, projected: 82 267 239 58 13 1 9 99 23 0 2 3 0 720
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 32 60 54 20 1 0 2 27 4 1 1 0 0 1146
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 32 60 53 17 2 0 2 23 3 1 2 2 0 1033
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Bobby Witt Jr., actual: 91 403 360 103 22 1 13 166 39 0 3 1 0 1035
Bobby Witt Jr., projected: 91 400 365 106 22 4 15 182 28 0 4 3 0 963
Royals, Actual: 97 3656 3265 803 178 11 97 1294 310 12 34 35 0 419
Royals, Projected: 97 3630 3266 826 175 18 110 1360 280 9 33 39 0 433


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.246 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.416
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.077
SOs (per PA): 0.214 0.207
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.316
Power Factor: 1.611 1.646
OPS: 0.711 0.733
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 419
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 433
Actual Runs Scored: 411

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