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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 September 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 0.978)

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
Joey Bart, actual: 21 62 58 15 1 0 2 22 2 0 1 1 0 678
Joey Bart, projected: 21 61 54 13 2 0 2 20 5 0 0 2 0 637
Jack Brannigan, actual: 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Brannigan, projected: 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tyler Callihan, actual: 37 107 95 20 4 2 3 37 9 1 1 1 0 601
Tyler Callihan, projected: 37 105 94 19 4 2 3 35 8 1 1 1 0 579
Billy Cook, actual: 74 51 50 9 1 1 0 12 1 0 0 0 0 217
Billy Cook, projected: 74 50 49 10 1 0 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 306
Oneil Cruz, actual: 76 334 295 80 11 1 17 144 36 0 0 3 0 1078
Oneil Cruz, projected: 76 327 291 70 13 2 13 127 32 0 2 2 0 800
Henry Davis, actual: 87 268 232 39 5 0 8 68 24 2 2 8 0 450
Henry Davis, projected: 87 262 230 41 7 0 6 67 23 2 2 5 1 419
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rafael Flores, actual: 29 92 82 18 3 0 7 42 10 0 0 0 0 904
Rafael Flores, projected: 29 90 80 17 4 0 6 39 10 0 0 0 0 805
Jhostynxon García, actual: 20 50 48 8 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 152
Jhostynxon García, projected: 20 49 46 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 1 0 157
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 37 100 95 19 4 0 4 35 2 0 1 2 0 368
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 37 98 90 20 4 0 3 33 5 0 0 2 0 479
Nick Gonzales, actual: 129 536 487 151 23 1 6 194 37 0 1 11 0 891
Nick Gonzales, projected: 129 524 482 133 24 3 7 185 29 1 4 8 0 677
Konnor Griffin, actual: 59 247 225 62 10 2 5 91 16 0 2 4 0 866
Konnor Griffin, projected: 59 242 220 61 10 2 5 89 16 0 2 4 0 859
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 96 387 330 82 12 1 10 126 46 0 4 7 0 739
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 96 378 328 86 18 0 11 136 42 0 3 5 0 800
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brandon Lowe, actual: 129 569 508 130 27 1 29 246 52 0 7 2 0 901
Brandon Lowe, projected: 129 556 494 123 24 2 29 238 52 0 4 6 0 881
Jake Mangum, actual: 115 412 374 107 16 2 4 139 22 3 2 11 0 728
Jake Mangum, projected: 115 403 374 109 16 1 3 138 20 2 1 6 0 708
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 96 398 359 97 15 0 17 163 31 0 3 5 0 808
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 96 389 350 89 16 1 14 149 34 0 3 3 0 745
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 70 280 251 51 7 0 8 82 27 0 0 2 0 526
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 70 274 246 66 11 1 12 114 25 0 1 1 0 841
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 139 607 516 135 32 2 15 216 79 0 2 10 0 942
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 139 594 525 142 29 4 20 238 57 0 3 8 0 900
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 45 159 135 36 6 0 7 63 23 0 0 0 1 980
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 45 155 138 32 6 1 4 51 17 0 0 0 0 619
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Shawn Ross, actual: 2 5 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1086
Shawn Ross, projected: 2 5 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1085
Ronny Simón, actual: 9 34 31 9 1 0 0 10 2 1 0 0 0 400
Ronny Simón, projected: 9 33 29 7 1 0 0 8 3 1 1 0 0 499
Jared Triolo, actual: 102 327 292 72 12 0 3 93 27 1 0 5 2 627
Jared Triolo, projected: 102 320 282 67 12 1 5 96 31 1 2 4 0 685
Esmerlyn Valdéz, actual: 66 264 222 54 13 1 16 117 38 0 3 1 0 1014
Esmerlyn Valdéz, projected: 66 258 217 53 13 1 16 114 37 0 3 1 0 1010
Davis Wendzel, actual: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Davis Wendzel, projected: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Yorke, actual: 37 113 102 21 4 0 1 28 8 0 1 2 0 375
Nick Yorke, projected: 37 111 101 22 3 0 2 31 7 0 1 1 0 460
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pirates, Actual: 139 5407 4797 1216 208 14 163 1941 493 8 30 76 3 672
Pirates, Projected: 139 5289 4730 1188 220 21 163 1939 455 8 33 60 1 632


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.253 0.251
Slugging Average: 0.405 0.410
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.245 0.245
On-Base Average: 0.331 0.323
Power Factor: 1.596 1.632
OPS: 0.735 0.733
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 672
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 632
Actual Runs Scored: 682

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