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Royals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Royals Projected Pitching

Through games of Wednesday, 1 July 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 0.982)

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
Luinder Avila, actual: 16 206 174 48 13 0 5 76 30 28 140 0 1 1 0 0 4 830
Luinder Avila, projected: 16 202 172 42 12 0 4 66 28 23 140 0 2 1 0 0 4 719
Mason Black, actual: 12 82 68 19 2 0 3 30 11 7 53 0 1 2 0 0 0 990
Mason Black, projected: 12 80 70 21 4 0 4 36 8 11 53 0 1 1 1 0 1 1121
Kris Bubic, actual: 9 207 180 36 8 1 4 58 26 23 151 0 0 1 0 0 5 517
Kris Bubic, projected: 9 203 180 46 9 1 6 73 20 24 151 0 2 2 1 0 1 702
Noah Cameron, actual: 16 370 336 93 21 2 10 148 25 51 251 3 4 2 5 1 2 851
Noah Cameron, projected: 16 363 331 79 15 2 11 130 27 38 251 2 2 2 4 1 2 678
Eric Cerantola, actual: 4 27 17 4 0 0 2 10 10 6 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 1587
Eric Cerantola, projected: 4 27 17 4 0 0 2 10 10 6 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 1580
Steven Cruz, actual: 24 115 100 23 2 0 8 49 14 17 79 1 0 0 1 2 2 904
Steven Cruz, projected: 24 113 99 21 4 0 4 38 13 13 79 0 0 1 0 1 1 641
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Jeff Criswell, actual: 1 8 8 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 335
Jeff Criswell, projected: 1 8 7 2 0 0 0 3 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 648
Lucas Erceg, actual: 34 147 125 36 9 0 3 54 20 21 98 0 0 2 0 0 0 839
Lucas Erceg, projected: 34 144 127 30 7 0 2 44 14 16 98 0 0 3 0 1 0 586
Carlos Estévez, actual: 1 7 5 4 0 0 1 7 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 22705
Carlos Estévez, projected: 1 7 6 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3078
Bailey Falter, actual: 5 57 51 24 3 0 4 39 6 15 29 0 0 0 0 0 1 2636
Bailey Falter, projected: 5 56 51 14 3 0 2 23 4 8 29 0 0 0 0 0 1 1004
Stephen Kolek, actual: 9 213 200 51 10 1 8 87 11 27 156 0 0 2 3 0 3 679
Stephen Kolek, projected: 9 209 192 49 8 1 5 73 13 25 156 0 1 3 1 0 2 612
Alex Lange, actual: 35 161 135 33 9 1 2 50 21 22 109 0 1 4 0 0 7 767
Alex Lange, projected: 35 158 132 29 6 1 3 45 21 19 109 1 1 3 2 0 4 722
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Seth Lugo, actual: 17 407 370 103 24 4 12 171 30 49 289 2 3 2 1 0 3 757
Seth Lugo, projected: 17 400 364 88 17 2 12 144 27 41 289 2 3 3 2 2 3 629
Daniel Lynch IV, actual: 35 140 126 24 7 1 2 39 11 13 102 0 1 2 1 0 2 494
Daniel Lynch IV, projected: 35 137 122 32 6 0 4 52 12 16 102 0 1 2 1 0 2 727
Nick Mears, actual: 21 83 70 18 5 1 2 31 11 11 58 1 1 0 0 1 0 734
Nick Mears, projected: 21 81 71 17 3 1 2 28 9 10 58 0 2 0 0 0 1 725
Eli Morgan, actual: 14 84 74 23 3 0 4 38 8 10 52 0 0 2 1 0 2 1268
Eli Morgan, projected: 14 82 76 19 4 0 3 33 5 10 52 0 0 1 0 0 2 775
Cole Ragans, actual: 8 151 127 27 5 0 10 62 23 20 106 0 1 0 1 0 3 872
Cole Ragans, projected: 8 148 132 29 6 1 4 48 14 16 106 0 1 1 1 0 2 628
John Schreiber, actual: 36 135 119 30 6 0 6 54 12 14 99 1 2 1 1 3 1 689
John Schreiber, projected: 36 133 118 28 6 1 3 46 11 14 99 0 1 2 1 1 0 599
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Connor Seabold, actual: 5 28 22 7 3 0 0 10 4 6 15 0 0 2 0 0 0 1477
Connor Seabold, projected: 5 27 24 8 2 0 1 13 2 5 15 0 0 1 0 0 0 1328
Mitch Spence, actual: 3 56 46 19 3 1 3 33 9 22 28 0 1 0 0 0 0 2575
Mitch Spence, projected: 3 55 50 14 3 0 2 24 4 8 28 0 0 1 0 0 1 1188
Matt Strahm, actual: 30 119 107 25 6 0 8 55 10 17 83 0 0 2 0 1 1 873
Matt Strahm, projected: 30 117 105 23 5 0 4 40 8 12 83 1 1 2 0 1 1 605
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 4 22 20 11 0 0 2 17 2 7 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 3021
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 4 22 20 11 0 0 2 17 2 7 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 2997
Michael Wacha, actual: 17 438 401 94 23 4 10 155 30 42 326 2 1 4 5 1 4 554
Michael Wacha, projected: 17 430 391 98 20 2 12 159 31 47 326 2 3 3 3 1 4 629
Beck Way, actual: 11 65 58 15 1 0 3 25 7 6 45 0 0 0 0 0 2 822
Beck Way, projected: 11 64 57 15 1 0 3 25 7 6 45 0 0 0 0 0 2 825
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Royals, Actual: 87 3328 2939 769 163 16 112 1300 333 441 2303 10 17 29 19 9 45 431
Royals, Projected: 87 3266 2914 721 141 12 95 1172 292 377 2303 8 21 32 17 8 37 377


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.262 0.247
Slugging Average: 0.442 0.402
Walks (per PA): 0.100 0.089
SOs (per PA): 0.201 0.220
On-Base Average: 0.341 0.321
Power Factor: 1.691 1.626
OPS: 0.783 0.723
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 431
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 377
Actual Runs Scored: 441

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