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Royals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Royals Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 20 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 0.979)

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: 18 248 210 58 14 1 6 92 34 32 170 1 2 1 0 0 4 814
Luinder Avila, projected: 18 243 207 52 14 1 5 81 32 27 170 1 2 1 0 0 4 702
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: 19 449 405 113 26 2 14 185 34 64 302 3 5 2 5 1 4 901
Noah Cameron, projected: 19 440 400 97 19 2 14 161 34 48 302 2 2 2 4 1 3 699
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 26 17 4 0 0 2 10 10 6 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 1620
Steven Cruz, actual: 32 142 124 27 3 0 9 57 16 18 102 1 0 1 1 2 2 760
Steven Cruz, projected: 32 139 122 25 5 0 5 46 15 15 102 0 0 1 0 1 1 582
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
José Cuas, actual: 5 29 27 8 4 0 0 12 2 2 19 0 0 0 0 1 0 782
José Cuas, projected: 5 28 24 6 1 0 1 10 3 3 19 0 0 1 0 0 0 875
Randy Dobnak, actual: 3 62 54 13 3 0 2 22 8 3 42 0 0 0 0 0 2 799
Randy Dobnak, projected: 3 61 55 15 3 0 2 24 4 8 42 0 0 1 1 0 1 810
Lucas Erceg, actual: 40 176 147 42 11 0 5 68 23 27 115 1 1 4 0 0 0 938
Lucas Erceg, projected: 40 172 151 36 9 1 2 54 17 19 115 0 0 4 1 1 1 628
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: 10 224 210 55 11 2 8 94 12 30 162 0 0 2 3 0 3 720
Stephen Kolek, projected: 10 219 201 52 8 1 5 77 13 27 162 0 1 3 1 0 2 632
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Alex Lange, actual: 39 180 152 39 9 1 4 62 22 30 120 0 1 5 0 0 7 864
Alex Lange, projected: 39 176 147 33 7 1 4 51 23 22 120 1 1 4 2 0 4 756
Seth Lugo, actual: 20 473 428 120 26 4 15 199 36 62 332 2 3 4 1 0 4 792
Seth Lugo, projected: 20 463 422 102 19 2 14 168 32 48 332 2 3 4 3 2 4 640
Daniel Lynch IV, actual: 41 165 150 27 9 1 2 44 12 13 124 0 1 2 1 0 2 408
Daniel Lynch IV, projected: 41 162 144 37 7 0 5 60 14 19 124 0 1 2 1 0 2 688
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: 16 91 80 24 3 0 5 42 9 11 58 0 0 2 1 0 2 1193
Eli Morgan, projected: 16 89 82 20 5 0 4 36 6 11 58 0 0 1 1 0 2 820
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 47 14 16 106 0 1 1 1 0 2 628
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
John Schreiber, actual: 41 154 136 34 7 0 6 59 14 17 112 1 2 1 1 3 2 680
John Schreiber, projected: 41 151 135 32 7 1 4 52 13 16 112 0 1 2 1 1 0 620
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: 36 146 131 35 7 0 10 72 13 26 97 0 0 2 0 1 1 1049
Matt Strahm, projected: 36 143 129 29 6 0 5 49 10 15 97 1 1 2 1 1 2 675
Tyler Tolbert, actual: 5 33 29 17 1 0 4 30 3 13 14 0 0 1 0 0 0 4483
Tyler Tolbert, projected: 5 32 28 17 1 0 4 29 3 13 14 0 0 1 0 0 0 4601
Michael Wacha, actual: 20 510 465 111 24 4 15 188 36 53 376 2 2 5 5 1 7 611
Michael Wacha, projected: 20 499 454 114 23 2 14 185 37 54 376 3 3 3 4 1 4 632
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Beck Way, actual: 18 98 87 24 1 0 4 37 10 11 67 0 1 0 0 0 2 857
Beck Way, projected: 18 96 85 23 1 0 4 36 10 11 67 0 1 0 0 0 2 846
Royals, Actual: 101 3878 3421 905 188 18 138 1543 386 528 2669 12 22 37 19 10 54 517
Royals, Projected: 101 3796 3387 845 165 14 115 1375 338 445 2669 10 22 38 23 8 42 447


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.265 0.249
Slugging Average: 0.451 0.406
Walks (per PA): 0.100 0.089
SOs (per PA): 0.197 0.217
On-Base Average: 0.344 0.323
Power Factor: 1.705 1.627
OPS: 0.795 0.729
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 517
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 447
Actual Runs Scored: 528

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