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Royals 2025 Projected Pitching Performance


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2025 Royals Projected Pitching

Through games of Sunday, 28 September 2025.
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 1.011)

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: 13 56 49 7 3 0 0 10 6 2 42 0 1 0 0 0 1 304
Luinder Avila, projected: 13 57 50 7 3 0 0 10 6 2 42 0 1 0 0 0 1 299
Ryan Bergert, actual: 8 174 155 37 9 1 4 60 17 21 122 1 1 0 1 1 1 664
Ryan Bergert, projected: 8 176 155 33 7 1 4 54 19 17 122 1 1 1 1 1 1 608
Jonathan Bowlan, actual: 34 180 161 37 9 0 6 64 17 21 133 1 1 0 1 0 3 598
Jonathan Bowlan, projected: 34 182 163 41 8 0 9 75 17 22 133 1 1 0 1 0 3 758
Kris Bubic, actual: 20 476 431 98 21 3 6 143 39 38 349 0 3 3 3 1 2 508
Kris Bubic, projected: 20 481 427 112 21 2 14 178 45 57 349 1 4 4 4 1 2 729
Noah Cameron, actual: 24 556 509 109 17 2 18 184 43 46 415 1 0 3 5 1 2 533
Noah Cameron, projected: 24 562 514 110 17 2 18 186 43 46 415 1 0 3 5 1 2 533
Taylor Clarke, actual: 51 206 196 38 6 1 8 70 9 20 166 0 0 1 2 0 3 421
Taylor Clarke, projected: 51 208 189 49 10 1 9 88 16 28 166 0 2 2 1 1 1 705
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Steven Cruz, actual: 47 189 169 36 7 0 5 58 18 20 137 0 1 1 0 1 0 542
Steven Cruz, projected: 47 191 168 34 8 1 4 56 21 19 137 0 1 1 0 1 1 551
Lucas Erceg, actual: 61 249 227 54 9 1 4 77 18 19 184 0 0 4 0 3 3 492
Lucas Erceg, projected: 61 252 223 51 12 1 3 74 23 26 184 0 0 5 1 2 1 526
Carlos Estévez, actual: 67 269 241 48 11 1 5 76 22 22 198 1 1 4 0 6 0 444
Carlos Estévez, projected: 67 272 242 59 11 2 8 97 24 31 198 1 2 3 1 3 2 682
Bailey Falter, actual: 4 61 54 20 5 0 2 31 7 15 36 0 0 0 0 0 2 1524
Bailey Falter, projected: 4 62 56 15 3 0 2 25 4 8 36 0 0 0 0 0 1 810
Hunter Harvey, actual: 12 39 38 6 0 0 0 6 1 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 128
Hunter Harvey, projected: 12 39 36 8 2 0 1 13 3 4 32 0 0 0 0 0 1 473
Thomas Hatch, actual: 1 5 5 2 1 0 1 6 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2376
Thomas Hatch, projected: 1 5 4 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Rich Hill, actual: 2 43 35 9 1 0 2 16 8 7 27 0 0 0 1 0 4 1245
Rich Hill, projected: 2 43 38 11 3 0 2 19 4 6 27 0 0 0 0 0 2 1053
Andrew Hoffmann, actual: 3 26 22 7 2 0 1 12 4 6 14 0 0 0 2 0 0 1962
Andrew Hoffmann, projected: 3 26 22 6 2 0 1 11 4 5 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 1512
Stephen Kolek, actual: 5 125 119 20 5 1 1 30 5 9 99 0 0 0 1 0 1 273
Stephen Kolek, projected: 5 126 115 30 4 0 2 42 8 15 99 0 1 2 1 0 1 583
Sam Long, actual: 39 189 165 48 8 0 7 77 22 31 121 0 0 2 2 1 2 1047
Sam Long, projected: 39 191 169 43 10 1 6 72 18 26 121 1 1 2 2 1 1 847
Michael Lorenzen, actual: 27 606 557 149 30 4 25 262 39 76 425 0 4 6 0 0 8 814
Michael Lorenzen, projected: 27 612 545 134 26 2 18 219 56 69 425 2 3 6 3 2 7 696
Seth Lugo, actual: 26 611 546 133 23 1 27 239 55 70 436 3 1 6 2 1 4 720
Seth Lugo, projected: 26 617 564 134 25 3 18 219 42 62 436 3 4 6 4 3 5 629
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Daniel Lynch IV, actual: 57 289 254 66 12 0 8 102 26 24 203 2 1 6 0 1 0 678
Daniel Lynch IV, projected: 57 292 259 69 12 1 10 112 25 36 203 1 3 4 2 1 4 830
Luke Maile, actual: 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 107
Luke Maile, projected: 1 4 4 2 1 0 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1782
Cole Ragans, actual: 13 257 232 53 13 1 7 89 20 33 185 1 2 2 0 0 3 615
Cole Ragans, projected: 13 260 233 51 10 1 6 81 24 28 185 1 1 2 1 0 3 573
Trevor Richards, actual: 3 18 15 7 1 0 0 8 2 4 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 2450
Trevor Richards, projected: 3 18 16 4 1 0 1 6 2 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080
John Schreiber, actual: 74 265 244 57 12 1 10 101 19 29 192 1 0 1 0 1 0 629
John Schreiber, projected: 74 268 239 56 13 1 6 90 23 28 192 0 2 4 2 1 0 620
Evan Sisk, actual: 5 26 21 5 1 1 0 8 5 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 1173
Evan Sisk, projected: 5 26 22 5 1 0 0 8 3 2 16 0 0 1 0 0 1 713
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Chris Stratton, actual: 12 87 77 29 4 2 2 43 8 17 51 0 2 0 1 0 0 1642
Chris Stratton, projected: 12 88 78 21 4 1 2 33 8 11 51 0 1 0 0 0 1 918
Michael Wacha, actual: 31 716 658 166 29 6 15 252 45 74 518 4 4 4 4 0 2 605
Michael Wacha, projected: 31 724 657 166 34 3 21 268 53 79 518 4 5 4 5 2 6 679
Ángel Zerpa, actual: 69 275 247 67 17 0 7 105 22 30 194 2 2 2 1 0 3 715
Ángel Zerpa, projected: 69 278 252 67 14 0 8 106 19 30 194 1 2 3 3 1 2 735
Royals, Actual: 162 5997 5430 1308 256 26 171 2129 478 637 4310 17 25 45 26 17 47 636
Royals, Projected: 162 6060 5440 1319 262 23 173 2148 511 661 4310 18 35 53 38 21 49 665


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.241 0.242
Slugging Average: 0.392 0.395
Walks (per PA): 0.080 0.084
SOs (per PA): 0.212 0.219
On-Base Average: 0.306 0.312
Power Factor: 1.628 1.629
OPS: 0.698 0.707
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 636
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 665
Actual Runs Scored: 637

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