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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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 0.979)

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 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: 83 53 51 9 1 1 0 12 1 0 0 1 0 247
Billy Cook, projected: 83 52 51 11 1 0 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 334
Oneil Cruz, actual: 93 406 357 100 13 1 20 175 45 0 0 4 0 1100
Oneil Cruz, projected: 93 397 353 86 16 2 16 155 40 0 2 2 0 805
Henry Davis, actual: 95 291 249 42 6 0 10 78 28 3 2 8 1 490
Henry Davis, projected: 95 285 249 44 8 0 7 75 25 2 2 5 1 432
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rafael Flores, actual: 43 147 133 38 6 0 10 74 14 0 0 0 0 1095
Rafael Flores, projected: 43 144 130 36 7 0 9 69 14 0 0 0 0 1003
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: 48 122 116 24 5 0 4 41 3 0 1 2 0 376
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 48 119 110 25 5 0 3 39 6 1 1 2 0 465
Nick Gonzales, actual: 144 592 537 162 27 1 6 209 41 0 1 13 0 831
Nick Gonzales, projected: 144 580 533 146 28 3 8 203 33 1 4 9 0 675
Konnor Griffin, actual: 74 314 288 77 14 3 5 112 20 0 2 4 0 758
Konnor Griffin, projected: 74 307 282 75 14 3 5 110 20 0 2 4 0 754
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 109 433 371 92 12 1 10 136 51 0 4 7 0 712
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 109 424 368 96 20 0 11 151 47 0 3 6 0 774
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brandon Lowe, actual: 145 635 565 148 29 1 33 278 60 0 7 3 0 940
Brandon Lowe, projected: 145 622 552 138 27 2 33 267 59 0 4 7 0 890
Jake Mangum, actual: 128 462 419 117 19 2 5 155 25 4 2 12 0 693
Jake Mangum, projected: 128 452 419 120 19 2 4 154 22 3 2 7 0 695
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 104 429 386 102 15 0 18 171 34 0 3 6 0 774
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 104 420 377 96 17 1 15 160 36 0 3 4 0 743
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 70 280 251 51 7 0 8 82 27 0 0 2 0 526
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 70 274 247 66 11 1 12 114 25 0 1 1 0 837
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 156 680 581 152 39 2 17 246 85 0 3 11 0 922
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 156 666 589 159 33 4 22 267 64 0 3 9 0 891
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 45 159 135 36 6 0 7 63 23 0 0 0 1 980
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 45 156 138 32 6 1 4 51 17 0 0 0 0 616
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: 16 52 48 15 3 0 1 21 3 1 0 0 0 734
Ronny Simón, projected: 16 51 45 12 2 0 0 15 4 1 1 0 0 525
Jared Triolo, actual: 119 354 316 76 12 0 3 97 28 2 1 5 2 583
Jared Triolo, projected: 119 347 306 73 12 1 6 103 33 1 2 4 1 685
Esmerlyn Valdéz, actual: 72 287 241 56 14 1 17 123 42 0 3 1 0 964
Esmerlyn Valdéz, projected: 72 281 236 55 14 1 17 120 41 0 3 1 0 960
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: 40 117 104 22 4 0 1 29 9 1 1 2 0 391
Nick Yorke, projected: 40 115 104 23 3 0 2 32 8 0 1 1 0 467
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pirates, Actual: 156 6042 5359 1363 238 15 181 2174 551 12 32 84 4 751
Pirates, Projected: 156 5917 5293 1333 251 23 181 2171 509 10 35 66 2 708


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.254 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.406 0.410
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.240 0.242
On-Base Average: 0.332 0.323
Power Factor: 1.595 1.629
OPS: 0.737 0.733
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 751
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 708
Actual Runs Scored: 748

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