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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 10 August 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 0.975)

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 60 54 13 2 0 2 20 5 0 0 2 0 645
Jack Brannigan, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Brannigan, projected: 1 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: 37 104 93 19 4 2 3 35 8 1 1 1 0 584
Billy Cook, actual: 66 45 45 9 1 1 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 240
Billy Cook, projected: 66 44 44 10 1 0 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 320
Oneil Cruz, actual: 64 283 250 66 10 0 14 118 30 0 0 3 0 1018
Oneil Cruz, projected: 64 276 245 58 11 2 11 106 27 0 2 2 0 783
Henry Davis, actual: 76 237 207 36 5 0 8 65 22 1 1 6 0 495
Henry Davis, projected: 76 231 203 36 7 0 6 61 20 1 2 4 1 444
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rafael Flores, actual: 12 31 25 5 1 0 1 9 6 0 0 0 0 798
Rafael Flores, projected: 12 30 25 5 2 0 1 9 5 0 0 0 0 666
Jhostynxon García, actual: 19 49 47 8 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 160
Jhostynxon García, projected: 19 48 44 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 1 0 165
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 21 56 54 12 2 0 3 23 0 0 1 1 0 405
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 21 55 50 12 2 0 2 19 3 0 0 1 0 533
Nick Gonzales, actual: 114 471 434 133 20 1 6 173 28 0 1 8 0 837
Nick Gonzales, projected: 114 459 424 116 21 3 7 163 24 1 4 6 0 673
Konnor Griffin, actual: 59 247 225 62 10 2 5 91 16 0 2 4 0 866
Konnor Griffin, projected: 59 241 219 60 10 2 5 89 16 0 2 4 0 849
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 81 321 268 72 12 1 10 116 43 0 4 6 0 931
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 81 313 270 72 16 0 9 117 36 0 2 4 0 837
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brandon Lowe, actual: 111 492 439 111 25 1 25 213 44 0 7 2 0 888
Brandon Lowe, projected: 111 479 426 106 21 2 25 205 45 0 4 5 0 885
Jake Mangum, actual: 97 349 317 96 14 1 4 124 19 3 2 8 0 818
Jake Mangum, projected: 97 340 316 95 14 1 3 119 17 2 1 4 0 756
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 96 398 359 97 15 0 17 163 31 0 3 5 0 808
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 96 388 348 89 16 1 14 148 33 0 3 3 0 744
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 70 280 251 51 7 0 8 82 27 0 0 2 0 526
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 70 273 246 65 11 1 12 114 25 0 1 1 0 837
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 120 522 440 118 28 2 15 195 72 0 2 8 0 1038
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 120 509 450 122 25 3 17 206 49 0 3 7 0 905
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: 5 19 18 5 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 515
Ronny Simón, projected: 5 19 16 4 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 444
Jared Triolo, actual: 85 265 236 57 12 0 1 72 22 1 0 4 2 604
Jared Triolo, projected: 85 258 228 54 10 1 4 77 25 1 1 3 0 683
Esmerlyn Valdéz, actual: 50 197 161 39 9 1 14 92 33 0 2 1 0 1084
Esmerlyn Valdéz, projected: 50 192 157 38 9 1 14 90 32 0 2 1 0 1068
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: 27 86 76 15 3 0 1 21 7 0 1 2 0 391
Nick Yorke, projected: 27 84 76 16 3 0 2 24 6 0 1 1 0 488
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pirates, Actual: 120 4686 4150 1064 187 12 145 1710 436 6 28 63 3 599
Pirates, Projected: 120 4568 4082 1030 194 20 143 1688 397 6 29 50 1 552


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.256 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.412 0.414
Walks (per PA): 0.093 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.242 0.243
On-Base Average: 0.334 0.324
Power Factor: 1.607 1.639
OPS: 0.746 0.738
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 599
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 552
Actual Runs Scored: 602

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