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Royals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Royals Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 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 0.989)

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: 95 367 337 87 17 2 16 156 25 0 1 4 0 824
Jac Caglianone, projected: 95 363 331 73 14 2 14 132 26 0 1 5 0 611
Isaac Collins, actual: 92 336 287 70 17 1 5 104 39 2 2 6 0 711
Isaac Collins, projected: 92 332 282 71 16 2 6 108 41 2 2 5 0 780
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: 69 291 263 69 14 2 4 100 23 1 3 0 0 663
Jonathan India, actual: 17 58 48 8 1 0 2 15 8 0 0 2 0 685
Jonathan India, projected: 17 57 49 12 3 0 1 20 6 0 0 2 0 727
Kyle Isbel, actual: 56 183 164 40 7 1 3 58 10 5 1 3 0 537
Kyle Isbel, projected: 56 181 165 39 8 2 3 60 11 3 1 1 0 527
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Carter Jensen, actual: 95 373 333 80 22 0 14 144 34 0 5 1 0 753
Carter Jensen, projected: 95 369 328 82 23 0 14 148 36 0 4 1 0 790
Nick Loftin, actual: 65 225 194 48 15 1 4 77 21 2 3 5 0 692
Nick Loftin, projected: 65 223 195 45 11 1 3 68 20 1 3 3 0 562
Luke Maile, actual: 3 11 10 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 830
Luke Maile, projected: 3 11 10 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 327
Starling Marte, actual: 46 133 119 32 4 0 1 39 8 0 2 4 0 609
Starling Marte, projected: 46 132 120 34 6 1 3 52 7 0 1 3 0 826
Michael Massey, actual: 83 268 248 67 18 0 7 106 15 2 3 0 0 704
Michael Massey, projected: 83 265 246 61 12 1 7 96 12 1 3 3 0 620
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Vinnie Pasquantino, actual: 75 320 278 63 11 2 6 96 36 0 4 2 0 673
Vinnie Pasquantino, projected: 75 316 282 73 15 1 11 124 28 0 4 3 0 798
Salvador Perez, actual: 95 399 369 78 14 0 14 134 15 0 5 10 0 501
Salvador Perez, projected: 95 395 370 97 18 1 17 167 15 0 3 6 0 703
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 0 637
Josh Rojas, actual: 19 46 45 11 2 0 1 16 1 0 0 0 0 592
Josh Rojas, projected: 19 45 40 10 2 0 1 14 4 0 0 0 0 618
Lane Thomas, actual: 88 294 254 61 16 0 9 104 36 0 2 2 0 773
Lane Thomas, projected: 88 291 260 63 14 1 10 109 25 0 3 3 0 729
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 37 69 61 20 1 0 2 27 4 3 1 0 0 720
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 37 68 60 18 2 0 2 25 3 2 2 2 0 805
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Omar Martínez, actual: 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1168
Omar Martínez, projected: 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Witt Jr., actual: 94 414 369 103 22 1 13 166 41 0 3 1 0 992
Bobby Witt Jr., projected: 94 409 373 108 23 5 15 186 28 0 4 4 0 957
Royals, Actual: 103 3881 3468 859 189 11 104 1382 324 15 34 40 0 449
Royals, Projected: 103 3839 3456 875 185 19 114 1439 293 10 34 41 0 455


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.248 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.399 0.416
Walks (per PA): 0.083 0.076
SOs (per PA): 0.213 0.206
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.316
Power Factor: 1.609 1.645
OPS: 0.715 0.733
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 449
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 455
Actual Runs Scored: 438

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